Motion: Sandbox Branches

[Howard Butler]

declaring the motion passed with +1's from Steve and Steve.

Howard

On May 21, 2007, at 11:50 AM, Steve Lime wrote:

> 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
>