Option to get a Windows installer from a Petri dish build?

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

Sometimes a developer may have a change to fix a bug, and the user who submitted the bug may not be in a position to 
build Wireshark from source to test the fix; see, for example, recent comments on bug 12845:

        https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12845#c55

"The change hasn't been merged yet so there are no automated builds that have it included.

You would have to make your own build, applying the change first."

        https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12845#c56

"That's unfortunately beyond my capabilities. Can you or Tomasz send me an installer (or just the binary if there are 
no external dependencies) of a version with this patch included to test whether it solves the issue? It might still be 
less work than creating the test extcap executable responding with my device lists."

Would it be possible to have an option in Gerrit to request a Petri dish build that builds the Windows installer and 
saves it somewhere such as

        https://{download site}/download/petri/win32

with either 1) a maximum number to store there, 2) a timeout so that a given installer is only there for N days, or 3) 
an option to remove it, so that users not in a position to build from source can test it?  Perhaps the installers 
should have names such as

        Wireshark-win64-3.1.0-{change number}.exe

to make it clearer which build to get (and with a new build for a given change overwriting the previous build).

This wouldn't help for users with 32-bit Windows or with macOS, as we don't have 32-bit Windows or macOS Petri dish 
builders, but, if that matters, that could be the next step.
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