On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 08:34:03 +1100, Minh Nguyen <nguyenmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the past [1] I expressed an interest in maintaining a "conservative > release". That was before I realized that release management is a > full-time job. Looking back, it's really is a full-time job. Perhaps > not to other people. But I guess due to my limited experience and > average intelligence, release management often consumes me full-time.
That's really overly modest of you. I don't know anyone who has done Sage release management and not found it to be very time-consuming. I'm happy you wrote this though, because I had an issue with the following view expressed earlier in this thread... David wrote: > I don't recall that. I have however thought there should be two branches. I > don't however accept the view there are insufficient developers for this. ...but I thought it would be inappropriate for me to reply to it since I have never done release management work myself. > I don't know if I would be around in the future to contribute > anything. So during my time with the Sage community, I have > endeavoured to document as much as possible many issues relating to > Sage development: managing a release, doctesting the Sage library, > source code management, coding conventions, docstring conventions, how > to get involved in the Sage community, etc. By doing so, when I'm no > longer active in the Sage community, documentation relevant to aspects > of Sage development would still be around and not buried in the > mailing list archives. Well, I hope you *will* be around in the future, whether in the current high-time-commitment mode or on a more occasional basis. But thanks for putting in the effort of documenting these things; "bus factor" is an issue that has been raised among Sage devels before, and your work is a great contribution to attenuating it. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- 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
