[development] sandbox, project nodes, release nodes, and drupal.org's contrib CVS repo

[Karoly Negyesi]

> so, while i'm happy to see the sandbox remain for cases where that's  
> useful, i'd like to offer the above scenario as a good alternative  
> for "pre-alpha" modules or themes.  i think it's better because:

Before there is another "whee then we do not need provide sandbox" -- there are other uses as we outlined earlier for the sandbox than pre-alpha modules and themes.

But, thanks Derek for this great writeup.