Re: [REQUEST] Public temporary & rewindable branches for GSoC features

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Stefano,

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 05:55:02PM CEST:
> 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 don't mind, as long as they are marked/documented as such (and your
naming strategy would seem to indicate that clearly enough), but I have
a couple of (non rhetorical) questions:

> I think that keeping future unfinished or experimental work open and public
> could help speeding up the project advancement,

Why do you think this would be the case?

> 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.

Why does work for *you* get less when you publish branches (as opposed
to not)?

Is this aimed to increase visibility of your changes?  Or help the reviewer?

As reviewer I'm usually more concerned with why something was done, and maybe 
how the patch evolved.  But things like rationale can typically only be found 
in the mails describing a change, rather than the change itself.

Thanks,
Ralf