Please don't! Martin
On Wednesday 10 April 2024 at 00:39:39 UTC+2 Dima Pasechnik wrote: > I think I will quit the Sage project as soon as decisions on technical > merits of PRs and issues will start to be taken in a nakedly political way. > > I am very strongly against any political overtones in these matters - it > reminds me all too well what's wrong is in academia in general. > > Dima > > > > > On 9 April 2024 11:21:46 CEST, Kwankyu Lee <ekwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Reviewing a PR is a technical work, but voting on a disputed PR has a >> political element. So I want to make a political remark concerning most of >> the disputed PRs. >> >> The modularization project (making pip-installation packages that contain >> portions of the sage library) started years ago with a general consensus of >> the sage community. Matthias led the project and did most of hard works. >> Many others did not care much about the project and still do not feel the >> impact except when encountered with the (annoying) "# needs ..." tags. >> >> Matthias is also managing much of the sage build system and the CI >> (mostly testing infrastructure) on github, partly to support the >> modularization project. Many of us would appreciate that. >> >> Certainly Matthias is not an appointed dictator ruling the developers, >> but I think we should at least acknowledge the leading role of him in the >> area of his expertise. On technical discussions on PRs, we should give more >> weight on his opinions from his expertise. >> >> I hope that you decide your vote by weighing the conflicting arguments on >> the issues. >> >> Kwankyu >> >> -- 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/9364a6ee-f5e2-4cdf-ba13-ee8242335145n%40googlegroups.com.
