On 17-Mar-10, at 10:41 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
William,
While I think that posts here on a particular part of functionality
(e.g. Solaris port) *continuing to work after an
update* should not happen here, only posts on particular parts of
functionality *ceasing to work* should be welcome (Dave, please take
the note),
(while such posts would still be appropriate on a list that
specifically concerns the particular part of functionality (e.g.
sage-
solaris)),
since when do you talk for "the people on sage-devel"?
Since more or less the beginning of the project. We have a long
history of having William speak for the collective; I'm not saying
this is a perfect arrangement, but we have functioned this way for a
long time, and it has been reasonably successful. (In this case, I
was privy to some of the discussion, being part of JSAGE, the slightly
more formal Sage board.)
Please take down that date - the date of the beginning of the demise
of Sage project, as we know it... :-)
No, seriously - OK, you are moderating sage-devel; you are concerned
about too much traffic
going on here on a particular issue. But this does not mean you need
to act and sound dictatorially, at least not
in this particular case.
Whereas, IMHO, creation of sage-solaris and in particular the tone of
the ensuing discussion here falls under the latter pattern.
I disagree -- but then again, I was one of the earliest to complain
about what I perceive to be a waste of my sage-devel bandwidth, so
maybe we were bound to disagree :)
Nick
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