Ok, so I just re-read my words below.  Perhaps this is a slightly too 
convoluted process to adopt as a legit development procedure.

I still think it would technically work, but I'm less sure of it than I 
was when I thought of it.  Maybe it's a good band-aid, but it's still 
just a band-aid over the bigger problem that GSIP#6 is trying to get the 
Geoserver PMC to address.

--saul

> 
> I think it's my bad names that got you bogged down!  It's simpler than I 
> wrote it, I think.  The idea is that geoserver's "real" development 
> would go on against geoserver-trunk, which is based on some kind of 
> stable geotools.  Then a "forward-port" of geoserver-trunk would be 
> maintained which tracked the changes to geoserver-trunk required to make 
> it run against geotools-trunk.
> 
> When someone wants to bring any *new* geoserver development into the 
> forward-port, they can just svn merge the trunk to their branch.  Once 
> they've got everything sorted out (if there are any problems) then the 
> difference between geoserver-trunk and the forward-port (as retreived by 
> "svn diff forward-port") are exactly what's needed to make 
> geoserver-trunk work against geotools-trunk.
> 

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