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

Our trunk is only to merge and fix urgency bugs. When we have a new project, we branch the trunk, develop over the branch, rebase from trunk if any other branch was merged into the trunk and when we are done ready to test, we deploy the branch. When test is OK, we merge to trunk, and release to beta. Before the merge, we do a version on the trunk to avoid problems.

After beta was OK, we release to prod.