On Nov 29, 2008, at 1:28 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:04 PM, mabshoff > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] >>>> What is even more important is to do the work for the main >>>> features, >>>> i.e. the Sage Release Tour in the wiki during development and >>>> not as >>>> an afterthought. The best results there have always been had >>>> when the >>>> patch authors did the changes themselves. It would also be great to >>>> clean up the old release tours since many of them are rather >>>> rudimentary. >>> >>> So here Minh could bug the relevant people, ask questions, etc. For >>> example, Minh might directly email me and say -- Ok, explain what >>> "sage -only_optional" is all about, in case trac and the relevant >>> help >>> in Sage isn't very helpful, and I'll answer, and he can proofread >>> and >>> post the result into the tour. (?) >> >> Exactly. It would be very nice if the release tours were >> consistent in >> style, had plenty of examples and so on. I have always liked the >> Magma >> release notes since they gave you a very good idea what had happened >> in the 2.14.x to 2.14.x+1 release. > > So, for example, can you please provide me with such a release note > for a Magma version? I don't have Magma and I've never seen a release > note for a Magma version. In case you're unable to provide such a > note, can you please describe what you like about those notes? That > is, let's take the release note for sage-3.2 as a bare minimum. What > other "good" things do you want to add to newer Sage release notes?
I think the most useful would be a high-level summary of the big features/trends that have gone in. Maybe the top dozen things that have gone in (which could span multiple tickets). One can easily get a list of tickets from, e.g. http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/query? milestone=sage-3.2.1 (minus the important author/reviewer information) but it's hard to get a feel for "what's new" when looking at that list. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
