> -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Karasulu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 10:21 AM > To: oscar-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Felix SVN trunk root > > Niclas Hedhman wrote: > > > 6. Laboratory/Sandbox. (experiments and premature code) > > > > > This whole incubator podling is a sandbox don't you think? >
Yes, I suppose, at some high level. But down in the trenches where the developers are, we are going to need IMO a sandbox to throw code into that doesn't fit into one of the main project/product trunks. Already, I've discovered this with the interim build of the maven-archiver-plugin that one needs to have in order to execute the maven-osgi-plugin. It's a temporary necessity until maven-2.0-beta-1 is released, but how else to I make this interim code available to the community? A developer sandbox makes that very easy. As we are developing many things, we may spend some time prototyping different ways to implement some functionality, and sharing this laboratory/experimental code will be easy using a sandbox project, rather than polluting our main trunk with code that may never see the light of day.
