Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > I believe there will be many borderline cases to debate on whether a > proposed lab belongs in labs or in a project sandbox. What should be > the general guidelines for such decisions? Should a lab proposal > include some information about this?
I don't think so, we should evaluate it case by case and learn as we go. I think it's risky to provide rules of thumb when we don't know what is the best option. Personally, I think that if somebody shows up in labs and doesn't feel comfortable in her own project's sandbox, we need to evaluate that reason before deciding. It could be that the person is masquerading a fork, and in that case, I would vote -1. Or it could simply be that the project has no such sandbox and no intention to create one, in which case, we could ask them to create one but they might well tell us that maintaining personal branches is not their policy. I would really hate if labs became a sort of 'refugee camp' for proto-revolutionaries in their own projects and we should do our best to avoid that. But labs might also provide support of those weird ideas that might not be well received in their own projects and thus provide a beneficial service to that project in the long run. It's hard to tell a-priori, which is why we should just collectively watch what happens for now and distill some best practices later, once we have better understanding of the potential pitfalls. -- Stefano. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
