[SciPy-dev] scipy.optimize.nonlin rewrite

[David Cournapeau]

Stéfan van der Walt wrote:
>
> You are preaching to the converted, but just to point out a subtlety:
> Linux and most other projects allow contributions to be accepted while
> they freeze, albeit to a different branch, tree, etc.  We should have
> a similar mechanism in place (we've tried SVN branches without much
> success in the past).
>   

I agree 100 % here; I certainly don't care about the code being put
somewhere in svn which will not be used as the basis for the release
(0.7 in this case).

David