On 6/8/06, Paul Querna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What is the difference between a 'sandbox' and a branches/paul-is-trying-something-crazy? I don't see much reason to not just use branches/ for that purpose.
For branches, I agree, an experimental branch to make radical changes just to try them out is just that, a branch, and goes under branches/. A sandbox, IIUC, is something different, it's for new work, not modifications to existing code, and is for work that may or may not ever make it into the trunk. For example, see http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/commons/sandbox/ for the Jakarta Commons sandbox. It's filled with random little projects that may never really see production use. Depending on the type of work people do, we may never need a sandbox. If the type of experimental work that goes on is such that it lends itself to branch based development, then that makes perfect sense. On the other hand, I could see sandbox projects for implementing specific Atom extensions that may or may not ever become widely used. -garrett
