On 17 Dec 2006, at 5:57 AM, Steven Wittens wrote:
As far development of modules that is still in progress, IMO the recent contrib branching improvements solve a lot of that. You can now work on alpha-features while maintaining a stable working version.
and most of the things in sandboxes will never have projects created for them.
and there's a lot of useful stuff in sandboxes, for the right people.
Sandboxes are a way for developers to share code, and not meant for end users.
Additionally, working on large core patches in sandboxes are not really ideal either.
I've found it best to have an actual complete drupal core checked into
a revisioning system, with multiple people having write access to it, to work on big core
patches.
Something which the sandboxes are not well suited to, and separate repositories are better for.