[Adium-devl] Switching to Xcode 3

[Colin Barrett]

On Oct 26, 2007, at 5:25 AM, Chris Forsythe wrote:

> Nightlies were a distraction the last time we did them.

I really think it's time we re-evaluated that. We're in a much  
different place in our development cycle now than we were back in the  
stone age of 2004 or so. We need people testing our code, and we  
honestly should not be breaking critical features on trunk for weeks  
and weeks anymore. We have decent version control now (when we last  
did it we were on SVN), if you need to break shit, cut a branch.

Getting as many people to test changes is really important, so we  
don't have tons of regressions to fix. Automated testing can help, but  
the more eyes on the code, the better.

I was there too. I remember the flood of reports.  How is this a bad  
thing? Catching these bugs *early* is better! Would you rather the  
data loss bugs go in to our shipping product?

Mozilla, and plenty of other open source projects provide nightly  
builds. I think people have a bad taste in their mouth from a time  
when we had poor quality control, poor version control, and poor code.

I'd like to think we're in a much better place now. Please try and be  
open minded and avoid the knee jerk "it didn't work before" answer.

-Colin