On Jul 9, 2007, at 19:52 , Richard S. Hall wrote:
Since the sandbox is for conducting experiments on code that might never be officially released into the trunk, perhaps we shouldn't be using the official package space...for example, we could use something like "org.apache.felix.sandbox.*" or something.
Of course, if you are experimenting with a branch of something that is already in the trunk, then this wouldn't be necessary, but for unbranched experiments it seems like we are opening up the potential for naming clashes.
You say yourself that we cannot always use this convention, so I'd say it's not necessary to have it. I think we should just agree that code in the sandbox can never by released officially (neither as snapshots, nor as parts of official releases). That eliminates most problems if you ask me.
Further, we need to have some overall agreement when assigning official package names, so this probably shouldn't be done in someone's sandbox. If an experiment moves from someone's sandbox into the trunk, then we should decide what its official package name should be.
Yes, I agree, that is the time to formally review the code and package naming is one of the issues that should be reviewed.
Greetings, Marcel
