On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote: > On Jun 9, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > >> On 06/ 9/10 04:58 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: >>> >>> On Jun 9, 2010, at 7:29 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >>> >>>> I often find it annoying to be updating a standard package, only to >>>> find someone else is working on the same package, and so two people >>>> produce patches and two different spkg files with the same version >>>> number. >>>> >>>> I thought it would be useful if there was a way to indicate to other >>>> Sage developers what packages you are working on. The Wiki seemed like >>>> the obvious place. >>>> >>>> Does this page look useful? Could it be improved, or should it just be >>>> scrapped. >>>> >>>> http://wiki.sagemath.org/spgs-soon-to-be-updated >>>> >>>> I don't know if its possible to create a better system of linking the >>>> trac to the Wiki, as the method I used here will not put a line >>>> through the trac ticket once it is closed. >>> >>> Hmm... this is the kind of thing that should be easily searchable from >>> trac. (That's the canonical place to go to see what else is being worked >>> on at least.) >>> >>> - Robert >>> >> >> Agreed, though it practice it is not so easy to do that. Take for example >> >> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6705 >> >> about missing tuning parameters for sun4v processors. I submitted that 10 >> months ago. Let's say I decide to fix that now. Nobody else is likely to >> know I'm working on it - they would have to be clairvoyant to know that. > > Yep. I could guess from the ticket that you're updating the ATLAS spkg, but > spkg doesn't appear anywhere on the page so I couldn't search for it (and at > 10 months old, who knows how buried the results would be). Perhaps it'd be > worth a new field (spkg) and then we could make a nice, easy report of > tickets by spkg.
Huge +1. That's a very good idea. Just make it so there is a nice, clear easy trac report listing all packages that are being updated. And post a link to this on the frontpage of trac. Then when people are thinking of updating an spkg, they will have a better chance to think to click on that link and see most spkg's that people are currently working on updating. I don't see the wiki idea as being likely to really work longterm for a project like Sage. -- William -- 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
