Just fyi, this is pretty much how Mylyn operates. We haven’t
yet bitten the bullet of creating another project, but for the past couple of
years we’ve had a separate set of Sandbox components where we incubate
things. While we don’t have the benefit of the parallel IP process, this
does give us the ability to communicate Incubation status on those components,
given them their own update site, project set, etc.
In addition to the lack of parallel IP process, which is probably
the biggest benefit of incubation, the thing that’s I’ve been
finding most awkward about the single project approach is that the incubation components
don’t have their own set committers, as they would with a separate
incubation project. Bjorn made some other good points about the split project
approach here:
http://eclipse-projects.blogspot.com/2007/09/getting-new-people-started-in-your.html
Mik
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Incubator components would make
sense. Having to recreate the project structure, even if it is the same people,
is where I have issues. Also the façade that they are two separate projects is
misleading to the community since operationally they are not. Projects in my
mind are organizational things, i.e. the people. Is it the code that’s
incubating or the people?