Hi there.
The validation team has a new edge website, http://edge.validation.linaro.org/ that reflects the development trunk of all of our components. This site can be used to check latest development effort, test bug fixes and, to some degree, use new features.
This website mimics the concept of now-defunct edge.launchpad.net. That is, it allows for new code to run on top of the production database.
This has important ramifications:
1) Unsafe code could cause data loss 2) New features that depend on database schema modifications cannot be tested this way. 3) Non-website features such as dispatcher and part of the scheduler cannot be tested this way.
For addressing those we will soon deploy staging.validation.linaro.org that works on a periodic snapshot of the production database.
I will be posting an update with instructions on how to replicate this setup if necessary and details about the periodic automatic roll out/upgrade procedure.
Thanks Zygmunt Krynicki