I'd love to have my sandboxes writable for everyone again.

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I can't speak to whether this is a good idea or not (seems like a fine idea to me and consistent with settings for the eventual per-issue repos), but I added it to the mockup for the extended repository interface on the Settings page at: http://bit.ly/hh1GDl (be sure to click the Settings page link on the right hand of the mockup).

It seems like it would require an update to the Maintainers tab as well.
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If it's deemed a Good Idea, I'll add changes to the Maintainers tab to the mockup as well.

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Until 2004 or so, all drupal.org repositories were world-writable. Then came popularity, and with popularity comes the evil. Hence, per-user write access was introduced for official projects.

However, until git migration in 2011, all sandboxes on d.o were world-writable. This really helped in fleshing out new ideas and collaborating easily, with everyone who knows about the sandbox in the first place. Of course, it's also a matter of trust, but frankly, who cares? All code is version-controlled, so if you fuck with my code, then I'll simply revert it. It's a sandbox, after all. Nothing more, nothing less. :)

When I initially raised this feature request in IRC, at least chx gave big thumbs up.

I personally expect that 90% of my sandboxes will be world-writable again, as soon as this has been (re-)implemented.