On Monday 12 February 2024 at 15:58:11 UTC-8 Dima Pasechnik wrote: What's rotten and decaying - well, the most obvious points are:
* pynac (memory leaks, bugs, sketchy or no docs, authors left long time ago) * commutative algebra, in particular Singular-based (memory leaks, bugs, no docs, authors either left or are not willing to look into it much), etc. * maxima (bugs, bugs, bugs) * broken optional packages, e.g. p_group_cohomology Each of those components could definitely use attention. However, the skill set required to work on those components is quite different from that on working on (re)packaging existing, maintained python projects. People choose what they work on. I think we have a problem if we don't have anyone willing/able to work on pynac or singular or maxima. But I'm not sure this has very much to do with people working on (re)packaging other software. The discussion about whether a sage-the-distribution should exist and how it relates to sage-the-library definitely needs to be resolved at some point and, whatever decision is made, people need to accept that's the consensus and move on until the next time it needs to be reconsidered, but I don't think that the resolution of that issue will alleviate the lack of maintainers of pynac etc. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/2bf356de-c6be-402e-9278-55e901469ec7n%40googlegroups.com.
