So I have a question about the whole "mothballing" process. We're don't have infinite time, and there's a limited number of us, so I understand wanting to keep some focus and not have half-finished work all over the place. But when we archive something as "mothballed", how will we ever find it again if we get some time? I mean, if I'm working on doing perf work on vectors, incorporating Colt primitives, and all that, won't I want to reopen this? How will I find it? By searching through JIRA tickets which are marked "won't fix" or fix version "later"?
What is the process by which we keep track of these half-finished pieces of work which we don't want to just lose? Ted did some work which will be helpful at some point, but what help will it be if it disappears? I'm not sure of the right way to avoid redoing work again and again, yet still avoid cluttering our codebase with a bunch of unsupported, unfinished code. -jake
