[HTTPS-Everywhere] Release early, release often

[Maxim Nazarenko]

Restartless update would be nice, but even old fashioned update on
restart is better than current situation. As far as I understand, we
need three three things: (a) a build machine to compile nightly
builds, (b) a hosting machine to store them, (c) code changes to make
it actually update from nightly builds.
I have a (virtual) box I can try to setup as a build machine, I don't
think it is suitable as hosting, however. And I have no idea how
difficult  (c) part actually is. Real developers, anyone?

Best regards,
Maxim Nazarenko

On 3 June 2011 06:10, Colonel Graff <graffatcolmingov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Several other add-ons have this automated (the nightly build process),
> admittedly
> through Google Code, and a few of them have made the add-on restartless so
> that
> when you do decide to update, you do not need to restart Firefox in order to
> do so.
> If you're interested, the add-on Pentadactyl does this and I believe most of
> the
> code is in files with names related to "bootstrap" (i.e. bootstrap.js or
> bootstrap.jsm)
> The (main) developer, is usually on IRC on OFTC in #pentadactyl but I do not
> know
> how willing he might be to help with any questions you have.
>
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Maxim Nazarenko <nz.phone at mail.ru> wrote:
>>
>> What about nightly/canary builds? That plus FF4 extension autoupdate
>> might do the trick.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Maxim Nazarenko
>>
>> On 2 June 2011 15:07, Osama Khalid <osamak at gnu.org> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 11:52:15PM +0200, Heiko Adams wrote:
>> >> Maybe moving the rulesets into a seperate extension could be a way
>> >> to speed up releases. This would allow to update the rulesets
>> >> independent from the main extension.
>> >
>> > The current proposal is to implement a silent, automatic
>> > ruleset-updater.
>> >
>> > Until the day this (great) feature is implemented, I think we should
>> > release more and more development versions in a regular base.
>> >
>> > --Osama Khalid
>> >
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