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Hi,

On 08/01/2010 07:24 PM, Derick Rethans wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Tobias Schlitt wrote:

>> I think that such a process is a good idea. Providing full requirements
>> and design documentation up front is not always possible and indeed
>> represents a quite high barrier for new contributions.

> However, providing the idea and what you're trying to solve is a good 
> thing to have. This is exactly what the requirements document was 
> supposed to be. Design is of course different. I don't think we should 
> give up the "requirements" part.

I would stick to requiring both, requirements and design documentation,
before a component migrates from experimental/ to trunk/. However, for
just getting started in experimental/, both documents must not be final
yet. An initial component proposal should should describe the idea
behind it on the ML anyway.

>> We already have the experimental/ area in SVN, where such components 
>> may be developed.
>>
>> However, we need to define some requirements on how new component ideas
>> might enter this experimental area, in order to avoid lots of dead code
>> there.

> We can always delete it :-)

That is true. :)

Cheers,
Toby
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