On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:06 PM, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote: > On 27 Mai, 00:08, Tim Daly <d...@axiom-developer.org> wrote: >> [...] >> There is a choice between releasing often and releasing, >> say, yearly. Sage releases about every week or two at the >> moment. The upside of this strategy is that people get the >> latest version immediately. The downside of this strategy >> is that people are ALWAYS in update mode and big changes >> are very hard to manage in a small window (2 days?) > > Indeed, not to mention testing/quality.
For Sage, this is simply not true for the majority of *users*. The vast majority of Sage users could care less that we release new versions -- most don't even notice or care. In fact, probably most just use sagenb.org. Many people on this list might pipe up that *they* are "ALWAYS in update mode". But the people reading this are a small fraction of users. In fact, even me -- when I'm *using* Sage for my research --- I will have a copy of Sage for that project, and I will not upgrade that copy of Sage for months on end. -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
