development infrastructure (was: integrate(log(1+(1+x**2)**0.5), x) -> incorrect result

> commercial macsyma gets this integral right.  I wonder if the old maxima 
> got it, too,
> and we broke it??

Interesting point.

This reminds me of an idea I had several times in the past, when some
developer lacked access to linux or some other handy development 
resource:

It might be useful to have some kind of maxima development machine,
where we have ready access to any version of maxima ever released with
all lisps, other handy stuff we can get our hands on like axiom, 
commercial macsyma, etc. and not committed work by developers like
not yet official ports to new lisps or whatever else somebody wants
to share but is difficult to set up.

The idea would be to give quite unrestricted shell access to all
developers interested but keep it otherwise private (you just can't
give shell access to everybody).

Unfortunately I think no open source project hoster provides such
a service, thus we would need to do it on our own. Basically we would
need some server with reliable and fast (want to use ssh-X-forwarding)
uplink and somebody who maintains it.

I would volunteer to keep an eye on it, but I'm connected via a
mesh network - this is anything else but fast and reliable...

What do you think?
Is it worth the effort to build such a service?
Is anybody able to provide a server with fast enough and reliable 
uplink?


Harald