I have a general question about how to handle a common situation.
I would like to start some work to implement features as described in spec docs on the wiki, namely the abstraction layer portion. This will, most likely, require multiple check-ins. On one side, I could take a snap shot of the code base and work locally on my dev machine. I don't think this is ideal for several reasons: this would prevent others interested in the work to give feedback as I progress, additionally I would need to back up my code periodically... One other possibility is to just make a branch, work on the branch and then, when the changes have been approved, merge the branch with the head. However, branching requires some coordination: to decide what feature(s) really deserve a branch, avoid excessive branch proliferation, coordination to merge the branch... In general, do we have some guideline to follow in this regard? Thanks, -a.
