+1
Though the admins are going to hate you ;)
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 08:35, Leo Simons wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> considering the community desire to decrease the amount of playgrounds,
> to decrease the amount of forks, to decrease the publicity struggle, and
> considering the user need for more clarity, I think it is a good idea to
> re-instate a scratchpad/proposal/microfork/testing area.
>
> In order to make things easy on users and in order to make the project
> layout more transparent, and in line with the proved success of the
> setup of Jakarta Commons (regarding this), I propose this scratchpad
> area is set up as a separate CVS module; I propose we name this module
> avalon-sandbox.
>
> here's a +1 from me.
>
> Materials that could go into the sandbox area include the Avalon5
> materials in the jakarta-avalon CVS and the experimental container
> material in jakarta-avalon-excalibur CVS (assembly, containerkit,
> container, info, meta, tweety, ....). Any "Micro Container" or
> "reference implementation" could start here as well. I think the
> materials that have been extracted from phoenix (stuff like baxter)
> should not go there though.
>
> Why not put this into jakarta-commons-sandbox?
> ----------------------------------------------
> Avalon is not a jakarta project anymore :D
>
> Why not in a current CVS module?
> --------------------------------
> This is what we have done in the past. It creates confusion as to what
> is stable and what is not, and having experimental materials inside the
> same CVS as the stable code is somewhat annoying for people that mainly
> work on the stable code.
>
> Anything else?
> --------------
> I think putting in place a new module for this will also give the
> community more of a "fresh start" feeling. It can be clear from the
> start that the sandbox is not a 'personal playground' but instead a
> 'community playground'.
>
> regards,
>
> - Leo Simons
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