Subversion - should anyone be developing off the trunk?

Question

When using Subversion, should developers be working off the trunk or should the trunk be only used for merges from each individual developer\'s branch and watched by a conti

Answer 1

Depends on how extensive the changes are. A general good practice is that trunk should always be compilable, but that doesn't necessarily mean developers can't work on the trunk for small changes/bugfixes - after all, that's one of the reasons for having a working copy; you can make sure something compiles before committing it.

Larger changes or feature additions should almost always be pulled off into branch until they're ready for integration so as not to interfere with other development.