On Mar 18, 2010, at 5:13 AM, Kiran Kedlaya wrote:
On Mar 18, 3:56 am, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu>
wrote:
Actually, I think all such posts belong on sage-release; all 1000+
subscribers to sage-devel don't need to know every time Sage alpha X
builds or brakes on system Y. (Of course, these replies are
invaluable
for the release manager, so I don't want to discourage people from
sending them in.) Fortunately all such posts usually occur in one
thread, so I can delete them in bulk when they show up on sage-devel.
All well and good, but I sometimes get the sense that no one is
actually checking sage-release. For instance, as of now, the thread
"Sage 4.3.4.rc0 released" on sage-devel has 11 replies, while the same
thread on sage-release has none. So why should David (and why should
I) bother posting to sage-release?
I think that sage-release is a subset of sage-devel, and because the
initial releases are always posted to both, people just hit reply when
their results come in. Perhaps if the reply-to was set to sage-release
on such postings...
The concept of separate mailing lists seems to be working in some
cases (sage-combinat-devel is quite active, sage-nt somewhat less so)
and not others (the last post to sage-finance was a spam from 6 months
ago). I think the Windows port is a special case, since it involves
issues quite apart from the rest of Sage development. But Solaris !=
Windows, and if it is going to become an officially supported system,
then now is precisely *not* the time for a separate forum.
What might be appropriate is a division between general Sage
development and build system issues. The latter would include all the
Solaris traffic, and probably everything currently posted on sage-
release (including all the "Sage-x.y.z.alpha/rc released" threads). In
fact, it might suffice to change the same of sage-release to something
like "sage-build"!
+1 That would have been a better name from the start.
- Robert
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