Hi Bjarke! On 20 Sep., 14:51, Bjarke Hammersholt Roune <bjarke.ro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In that case, could you explain what you did intend, since evidently I > > completely misunderstood you. Are you proposing creating wiki > > pages, or a survey paper, or a directory of experts or? > > Benefiting from experience is good.
Probably everybody will agree. [...] > How does Sage benefit from other people's experience now? Sage's "don't reinvent the wheel" is of course a way of saying "use people's experience". I am not entirely sure, but I somehow got the impression that you would like a somehow formal procedure that encourages Sage developers to take into account other people's experience. I don't know if the following can be considered such a formal procedure. But as much as I know, it is highly encouraged (and AFAIK quite common) that people post at sage-devel or sage-combinat before they work on a big project or if a high-level strategic decision is to be made. It appears reasonable to me that this "doing things in public" is a good (perhaps best practicable) way to profit from people's experience: If developer A makes his plans public then developer B can comment, or even warn if her experience suggest that A's approach is a waste of time. Would this be towards an answer to your question? Or did I completely misunderstand? Cheers, Simon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
