On Jun 2, 2009, at 8:23 AM, Harald Schilly wrote: > On Jun 2, 9:12 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Should we start a "sage-release" mailing list for planning releases >> and discussing build issues? > > Personally, I like it if it sticks here on sage-devel. We could tag > each subject by a scheme, like in trac, so that we know it is about > release management. e.g. "[release x.y.z]". And if there are build > issues, it probably falls back to sage-devel by a cross post > anyways...
I would see build issues being part of the release list as well, I think most people don't need to see (built fine on my machine, here's the list of test failures...) but such information is invaluably useful to the release manager. Personally, I'd also rather (mentally) filter by [sage-release] than [sage-devel] [release x.y.z], but that's a minor point. The announcements of alphas/betas/release candidates could still go to sage-devel, but the subsequent discussion would not. Another thing I'd like to see is the use of a wishlist and/or roadmap wiki page. This would list biggish items, like the switch to new symbolics, more robust notebook, new categories system, interactive plots, etc. that are bigger in scope than single tickets and whose completion merit a full x.y release. (x.y.z releases could continue to be the set all positively reviewed tickets + bug fixes as they are now.) Basically, in some ways it'd be like a wishlist, but for things that need more discussion and planning than a wishlist trac ticket ticket/feature request. I think this would also give us a more visible direction and focus for the future of Sage as well. As Sage is still essentially a volunteer-driven effort, no milestones would be attached to them until someone actually stepped up and implemented them and they're ready to go in. Other goals, such as doctest and documentation coverage, could go there as well. Thoughts? - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
