On Wed, 11 May 2005, Grant Smith wrote:
I'd like to kick off the whole sandbox debate again. Yes, I'm a sucker for punishment..
If I recall correctly, the consensus was to have a "sandbox subproject" for new components. I would like to propose a simpler solution: Why not have the sandbox as a subdirectory of the existing project.
This depends on what your expected model is for contributions to the sandbox and for inclusion of sandbox components in releases. If the set of committers to the sandbox will be the same as to the rest of the project, and you expect to include sandbox components in your releases, then this is probably fine. Otherwise, you might want to give some thought to keeping the sandbox outside of trunk.
-- Martin Cooper
Then we can just specify all "s:" components as sandbox components until they are completely accepted by the community. At that time they can become "x:" components.
Would this satisfy the ASF's requirement for "All New Components Must Go Through the Incubator" ? Hopefully...
