Hi, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> writes:
> I hope this will be a topic in Rennes though I won't be there. I won't be there as well, it's currently too expensive for me. > Savannah is nice but limited in scope (and notably does not provide > 100% uptime). > > The E-mail patch system is archaic and is certainly noisy. I think we > should have an additional system that is more friendly. I use github a > lot to collaborate, and while it is not acceptable to a GNU project > (mostly because it is closed source), it certainly proves to have good > functionality and improves collaboration. > > Also, I think reviewers should become mentors - i.e., help rather than > be only critical. The current system is unfriendly, though it appears > to be hard to appreciate that problem from the 'inside'. The main > problem appears to be we have too few reviewers to make them > mentors... > > I am not contributing my work as it stands. Maybe my contributions do > not matter in the greater scheme of things - but, believe me, I am not > happy about it. I just updated a critical bug in OpenBLAS and bumped > scipy and numpy in production. Someone else will have to do that work > over again. > > Maybe some people here can form a working group and come up with > recommendations? I'd be happy to join or work in such a group. > Pj. -- ♥Ⓐ ng0 For non-prism friendly talk find me on http://www.psyced.org
