I have a general question about how to handle a common situation.
I would like to start some work to implement features as described in
spec docs on the wiki, namely the abstraction layer portion. This will,
most likely, require multiple check-ins.
On one side, I could take a snap shot of the code base and work locally
on my dev machine. I don't think this is ideal for several reasons: this
would prevent others interested in the work to give feedback as I
progress, additionally I would need to back up my code periodically...
One other possibility is to just make a branch, work on the branch and
then, when the changes have been approved, merge the branch with the
head. However, branching requires some coordination: to decide what
feature(s) really deserve a branch, avoid excessive branch
proliferation, coordination to merge the branch...
In general, do we have some guideline to follow in this regard?
Thanks,
-a.
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