> On 2 Sep, 05:55, François Bissey <f.r.bis...@massey.ac.nz> wrote: > > > Who would agree with making this a policy and so adding to the Sage > > > Developers Guide a few sentences saying that any updates of packages > > > that are not to a stable release (i.e snapshots, alpha, beta, release > > > candidates etc) should be discussed on sage-devel first? > > > > > > +1 or -1 ? > > > > +1 > > > > but how do you make it more visible? > > I do not understand what you mean. > > Do you mean visible in the Sage Developers Guide? Since I think it's > quite important, putting part of it in bold might be a good idea. > > Or do you mean more visible on sage-devel? Perhaps a subject line of > "Can we upgrade $package to a non-stable release?" might be a good > idea. >
on sage-devel, yes more like "[request to upgrade to unstable]" may even be better. My point was that a thread doesn't necessarilly get a lot of attention. > > Do you want to have a vote as well? > > I'd not really considered that. I guess a vote would be a good idea, > though I think the main thing is that it is discussed > I guess it could be followed by a vote. We are probably defining policy here. Given comments from some other threads in which I abstained to participate there should be a minimum number of votes set to proceed on something. > > There was a very short thread about numpy-1.5 before the dev opened the > > ticket and started coding. > > Of course a ticket opened with code in it doesn't mean that it can be > > blindly merged so there could be a second gate at this point before a > > decision is made to merge. > > Francois > > True. But if person A creates the ticket, person B reviews it and the > release manager finds it passes, it may end up getting merged. I see that as someone not doing there job properly if we were to decide that a vote is required in that case. Let's face it, we can always imagine a scenario where safeguards fails. We are just minimizing risks and damages. Francois -- 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
