[Dev] Example parcels, sandboxes

[Morgen Sagen]

FYI, I've moved my RSS reader servlet (named "Inbound") to sandbox/ 
morgen/parcels/inbound.

On Jun 13, 2005, at 2:51 PM, Katie Capps Parlante wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We had several discussions last week about example parcels, and  
> made some decisions...
>
> For 0.6, we are going to have four "example" parcels:
> * ZaoBao, currently maintained by Morgen
> * Amazon wish list, currently maintained by Chao
> * Flickr, currently maintained by Ted
> * Hello world, to be created by John
>
> Example parcels are treated as part of the 0.6 release, and need to  
> be maintained as we would any other parcel that is part of 0.6.  
> Unit tests must pass. If new bugs are introduced they will be  
> treated as regressions. For right now, example parcels live at  
> parcels/osaf/examples, although we may move them as part of a  
> general flattening of the package/parcel hierarchy.
>
> We decided to promote the amazon and flickr parcels to "example"  
> status,  as they have turned out to be compelling examples. We'd  
> like them to continue to work against the latest milestones. We  
> have not yet checked them into the tree, this should happen soon.  
> Ted is going to get permission from the original authors before we  
> checkin the flickr parcel to the tree. We also decided to create a  
> very simple "hello world" parcel; this parcel is intended to  
> provide a very gentle introduction to creating parcels.
>
> On a related note, we're going to create a "sandbox" area in our  
> svn repository to hold parcels, tools or other projects that  
> developers are working on but are not formally part of the release.  
> We will have no expectation that code in the sandbox is maintained  
> in a working state. More details will come in a separate email  
> (from Bear).
>
> Someday we may create a "contrib" area, which would function as a  
> holding place for working parcels that are not yet part of the  
> release, with a different set of expectations than we have for  
> example parcels. For now, we think that "examples" and the  
> "sandbox" will be enough to support our current practice.
>
> Cheers,
> Katie
>
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