Motion: Sandbox Branches

[Steve Lime]

Fine by me, +1...

>>> On 5/20/2007 at 11:38 PM, in message
<5352D2D8-DB08-47A8-BA93-382B378446D3 at gmail.com>, Howard Butler
<hobu.inc at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Daniel,
> 
> My major reason for a sandbox branch is similar to Frank's -- a  
> vendor branch that is a mix of backported 5.0 features on top of a  
> 4.10 base.  I've made numerous additions and changes to the SDE  
> driver that can't make it into a 4.10 release, but 5.0's release is  
> quite a ways out on the horizon yet.
> 
> On May 17, 2007, at 1:59 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
>> Does the "." in "./sandbox" imply that anyone could create sandbox  
>> subdirectories anywhere?
>>
> 
> no.  That'd be really messy.
> 
>> Or instead was teh intention to create a global "/sandbox" besides  
>> branches and tags at the top level where developers could create  
>> their own development branches?
>>
> 
> yes
> 
>> I'd be okay with the creation of a global "/sandbox" area as an  
>> option for developers to create their own development branches if  
>> they like or need to do so.
>>
>> However I'm not keen on requiring that all new development take  
>> place in private branches to be merged later. I fear that the  
>> complexity and cost of merging changes in the end would outweigh  
>> any benefit. We haven't had too much problems with people breaking  
>> the trunk build in the past anyway. I fully agree with you that  
>> having most activity in trunk "makes people aware of the  
>> consequences of their actions on other folks and makes buildbot  
>> testing simple."
> 
> Given the limited discussion and somewhat indifference to the idea, I  
> move that we create /sandbox and allow developers to maintain private  
> branches at their discretion.
> 
> Howard