On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Michael Schmalle <m...@teotigraphix.com> wrote: > I'm being numb here but what exactly would we expect to put in the white > board? > > examples, component code? Please excuse me being naive.
Let me give a quick example of how this can work. Apache Tiles used to be a subproject of the Apache Struts project. Someone decided it was better as a standalone project so they forked it to the Struts sandbox. Work continued there by multiple people until Tiles was completely separated from Struts. So Apache Tiles became a top-level project (TLP) in its own right. The code from the Struts sandbox became the trunk of Tiles. Over time the code stabilized and releases were made. Eventually commiters started thinking about revolutionary changes to Tiles. They forked the codebase to the Tiles sandbox and went to work. Eventually that work became stable enough that we moved it to trunk and it is now the main development line of the Tiles project. Eventually a Tiles 3 version will be released from it. If you have the gumption to do it you can see the entire history of this by looking at Subversion logs. It all happened in the public Subversion repo. Greg
