"Stefano Mazzocchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The scratchpad was born as a place where things can be worked-on on > alpha status, but it because a place where things are dumped and forgotten. > > A scratchpad is against the continuous integration concept. In short, > it's an individualistic short-cut but doesn't help the community, nor > the project. > > I propose to dump it and to move the code into 'alpha blocks'. > > Each block is currently described into the 'project-info.xml' descriptor > and has an attribute that marks it 'alpha' and the build system shows that. > > Of course, that also means that those blocks are marked as such in the > properties files and removed from the official distribution. if you want > the experimental code, you have to turn it on one by one by yourself > (like in compiling the linux kernel, so to speak) > > This will solve several issues we currently have in the build system and > things will be much more organic at the end. > > Thoughts?
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