Brian, Thanks for detailing your reasons. The very small repository issue seems mitigated since someone would only have to download the core subdirectory. Also, I think that well named directories like contrib/ and scratchpad/ would not be too confusing to most developers, although I think creating some documentation around this would be a good idea.
I do like the idea of potentially have more developers able to contribute to the scratchpad and contrib area. I will ask for a new Repo for this area under the name Apache/Jakarta-Lucene-Sandbox/ If there is trouble getting this repository, do you think the sub directory approach is an alternative? If not, do you have any other suggestions. Thanks --Peter On 3/26/02 10:24 PM, "Brian Goetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the repo via the CVSweb interface for the first time might be > confused. Keeping a VERY SMALL number of files, directories only, at > the top level would help mitigate this. > > There's another very significant advantage to a separate repo for > contrib -- we can grant commit on that much more lightly than on the > core. This increases the chance that contributions in contrib/ will > be maintained by their contributor, if (s)he can commit them. > > I still prefer the idea of putting the scratchpad in commons. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
