Re: work in progress code - how to publish?

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Jim, Eric, et al.,
>
> The ACL support code for AIX 5 currently has just #if 0 stubs. On 2008-12-07,
> I wrote some work-in-progress code for AIX 5 ACLs (function aclx_get etc.).
> The code is not finished. IIRC, the test suite does not pass.
>
> Unfortunately I cannot continue working on this code (*). But someone else

That's a shame, for AIX 5 users, but their numbers seem
to be small... and shrinking.

> may find it a good starting point for completing this support. Should I
>   a) put into gnulib, surrounded with #if 0?
>   b) put the code on a separate branch in gnulib?
>   c) keep it only for myself?
>
> I would prefer a), so the code does not escape the attention of whoever
> wants to continue and does not bitrot as quickly. But it goes against the
> principle of committing only working code. What do you think?

Doing a) sounds best to me, too.