I'm liking the level of discussion going on here - it shows that we have people with passion in this project, which is awesome.
A while ago we used to have branches in the repo for each committer, where that committer could push prototypes and proposed changes - discussions are a lot easier when the code is visible and browseable. I think the appropriate place for that would be in the main repo under the existing /skunk directory. Create a directory like /skunk/cbartlett and go wild. Greg, what do you think? -- Noel