Nick Alexander wrote:
David is trying to argue that the goals for Sage-5.0 should be
* Official Solaris 10 support (all tests pass)
TARGET DATE: Sometime in March?
*instead* of the following:
* 90% doctest coverage score (=write about 1500 doctests)
* Official Solaris 10 support (all tests pass)
* Official Cygwin support (all tests pass)
* Close _all_ tickets listed at
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/wiki/stab1
TARGET DATE: Sometime in May.
I vote -1 to this. As a user, I expect a major release (defined as a
version number bump) to include exciting new toys. Solaris support does
not *in my opinion* qualify as an exciting new toy. I anticipate a
Slashdot story announcing the new release, followed by a surge of
interest and downloads. It is *my opinion* that Solaris support is not
an exciting new feature that the resulting publicity should be
promoting. If anything, it is *my opinion* that Cygwin support is much
more likely to appeal to these potential new users, and would warrant
the publicity.
Nick
PS. Emphasis added because I do not want to fan any flames -- please
respond accordingly.
Part of my logic for this is that given Sun have
* Donated hardware (t2) worth around $30,000 - $40,000 for this,
* Have supplied other hardware heavily discounted. (sage.math and most of the
disks are I believe Suns)
* Are asking William for a release where they can point customers at,
then those that supplied a lot of money probably do consider it quite important.
You personally might not, but a major investor does.
If Sun (now Oracle) did not consider it important, I doubt they would have
supplied the hardware, and I doubt they would be asking William questions about
the Solaris port.
The only person paid full time to work on Sage was paid to do the Solaris port.
A lot of time, effort and money has gone into it.
I agree with you about Cygwin too.
I also think reaching a specific level of doc tests is a bit irrelevant in
determining when to increment the major release number. Perhaps if the doc tests
reached 100%, then I might agree.
I think with the very fast release cycle of Sage, no one release is likely to
have many exciting new toys.
Dave
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