repro sample

just a thought - you guys sometimes ask us for a small repro of a problem.  i've got a fairly large and complicated model/db - not great for hacking around and just wanting to see if something will work. 

i guess you've got some sort of scratchpad model/db solution which serves as a good starting point for trying stuff out.  maybe one with the main types of inheritance all setup, the db all setup with a few sample entities and a skeleton test project? 

have you considered making your scratchpad-type solution available as a sample?  It would be really handy for trying out stuff which hits cornercases - would be easier than trying to fire up the old FilmFestival sample, setting up concrete inheritance, plonking in test data, etc.  And if we provided you a repro which is based off the same or similar solution to your scratchpad then that would presumably be all good for everyone... :)

Our 'scratchpad' model is large and complicated, precisely because it has subdomains for all the various types of inheritance, composite key stuff, soft delete, optimistic concurrency checking, long chain cascades, value objects etc. etc. in numerous exciting combinations.  A scratchpad domain simple enough to be 'minimal' will be too simple to support the majority of bug reports and feature requests that we get nowadays.  Obviously, we could provide a base solution which people could extend, but in practice I think most issues would end up being more extension than base!

Thanks for the suggestion though -- we'll have a think about whether there's anything we can do to make it easier for people to submit repros that are minimal and easy for us to work with!