http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15419
--- Comment #6 from t3g milest3g@gmail.com 2008-12-19 08:05:28 --- I think you're misunderstanding the reason for this bug report.
The purpose isn't to make life easier for tester - it's to make life easier for our users.
Anybody tester can use the last unstable version, there's no feat there. Providing useful information for our users means we also provide test data for the version they're using, which for 99% of them will be one of the stable versions, since distributions only offer stable releases in their repositories.
For the sake of our users, we're happy to downgrade temporarily and test applications in an older, but stable version. Moreover, since unstable release sometimes break support, it is a service to our users that we can check and tell them that the stable version runs their application fine.
Now if for any philosophical reason we take the stance of disregarding our userbase, why do we provide stable releases at all?