On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, matthew green wrote:

>    Maybe what we need is to have a spot on the ftp site for "I was
>    working on this and never finished, and if you would like to take this
>    code and finish the TODO list be my guest". The shame is not so much
>    that the original author never got it clean enough as that no one else
>    has the chance to do the work either so long as the code isn't public.
> 
> 
> i fail to see why branches fail to provide a place for unfinished work....

Besides being heavy-weight as others have mentioned, branches are only an
option for developers. There are probably a number of projects out there
by non-developers which could benefit from this. :-)

Take care,

Bill