[REQUEST] Public temporary & rewindable branches for GSoC features

[Stefano Lattarini]

Hello Ralf.

Would be ok with you if in the future I create some temporary branches
*in the automake official repository* that I can rebase, edit, and delete
at will?

I think that keeping future unfinished or experimental work open and public
could help speeding up the project advancement, and IMHO it would be more
expedient than having to keep track of 3 o 4 versions of the same patch
series only through the mailing list archives.

Obviously, such "experimental" branches wouldn't be ever merged into
master or any other permanent branch, nor into any branch that is planned
to be merged into a permanent one.  In fact, since rebasings and rewrites
are involved, they should never be merged into any other branch, either
temporary or permament.

For the naming, I'd suggest to use a hierarchy like `GSoC/experimental/NAME';
for example:
 - GSoC/experimental/awk-tap-parser
 - GSoC/experimental/more-testcases
 - ...

If you agree, I can start with a temporary branch for the current set
of preliminary patches (which still needs documentation and testcases
additions); the name might be `GSoC/experimental/custom-test-drivers'.

WDYT?

Regards,
   Stefano