On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 04:24:31PM -0700, mabshoff wrote:
> > > But please: *keep me updated about any such change as soon as
> > > possible* so as to limit conflicts. Every late conflict resolution
> > > just delays even further the final merge.
> >
> > Seehttp://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5887
> >
> 
> You can always grep for filenames in ~mabshoff/release-cycle-x.z.y/
> [alphaX|rcX\final] to see which patches touch that code. It is just
> too long a list to have it in my mind to be 100% accurate.

50% acurracy is already helpful :-)

> > > And for little doc fixes (typos, ...): I would much prefer if they
> > > were just mentioned to me, and I would be glad to integrate them
> > > directly in my patches.
> 
> I don't think anyone is fixing small things in patches like that, i.e.
> there are two big trends going on:

There actually have been. But anyway, here I should just focus on
getting the damn thing in, rather than how to maintain it
longer. Thanks for the tips!

>  and there are already known issues (pickling, cython, dynamic
> classes) that should have been sorted out a long time ago.

Yup. I could have used more help. But we are all busy.

> Since you will be in Seattle a couple days
> before SD 15 you might want to book some time with RobertWB, Mike,
> William and me (and whoever else is interested) so that we can go over
> the patchset with you and have a clear roadmap to get this merged. 

This is the exact reason why I am coming :-) I hope to have precise
dates by the 4-th of May, when I'll know if I need to fly back to
France or not just after SD 15.

> As is I am doubtful that this patchset will make it into 4.0, but I
> am more than happy to target this for 4.1, i.e. the first big
> feature release after probably doing 4.0.1 to fix left over bugs
> only from 4.0.

Good!

Cheers,
                                Nicolas
--
Nicolas M. ThiƩry "Isil" <nthi...@users.sf.net>
http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/

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