On Friday, September 26, 2025 at 6:47:25 AM UTC+8 John H Palmieri wrote: 3. Kwankyu has brought up some issues about github release creation. 4. ... Item 3 arose, and some other issues arose, because code was removed without carefully thinking about the consequences.
As can be seen in https://github.com/sagemath/sage/actions/workflows/dist.yml?page=3, the release creation is failing since May. The these failures were a result of external changes in the GH API/actions involved at the release step, not any deletions on our (my) side. So this is another example of the natural bit rot that Michael mentions. I think one reason you’re bringing this up is that the current release cycle has been especially tough on sage-the-distro users: 1. First came the setuptools update, which broke the Jupyter kernel and caused some annoying recompilation issues. 2. Then the move to the Meson build backend introduced a few doctest and docbuild hiccups on some systems. 3. And now, the cleanup work after that switch has brought along a couple more bugs (like the current sage-conf problem). Since I was closely involved in points 2 and 3, I really want to say I’m sorry for the headaches this has caused. My goal was never to make things harder for anyone. PR #39030 <https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/39030> <https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/39030>was a big, nine-month effort, non-trivial but necessary, and honestly, given the state of sage-the-distro, I’m relieved it went as smoothly as it did. That said, you’re absolutely right: I should have done a better job communicating these changes ahead of time, if only to set expectations and help everyone brace for the bumps along the way. <https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/39030> -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/416aeb07-4242-412f-baf0-502b8e110f02n%40googlegroups.com.
