On Aug 1, 2009, at 3:39 PM, Simon King wrote: > > Dear Sage developers, > > I asked the following question in a mail to William Stein and David > Joyner, but William suggested the discussion should be in public. > > Yesterday my cohomology package became an optional spkg. But there are > a lot of homological algebra constructions that aren't in, yet. > However, some features (e.g. Massey products) might soon be > implementable. I am not sure yet, but end of next week might be > possible. > > Assume that you are expert for a topic X, and there is a spkg about X; > hence, you are a potential reviewer. How soon would you be fed up with > seeing yet another version of the X-spkg? How long (as a rule of > thumb) would you suggest to collect more features before publishing a > new spkg version? > > Sage used to have a "publish early and frequently" policy, but I don't > know if it is appropriate for spkgs as well.
I think it does. The issues is sometimes an upgraded spkg is not just a drop-in replacement for the older version and it takes a bit of work to migrate. Usually we try and upgrade whenever we can (baring any regressions). - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
