On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Simon King <simon.k...@uni-jena.de> wrote: > Hi William, > > On 29 Jan., 06:31, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Last year in January 2010, there were 1580 messages on sage-devel. >> This year, in January 2011, there have so far been only 604 messages. > > I wonder if that comes from the fact that there are so many (too many, > I'd say) sage-related list. There exist: > > sage-algebra > sage-combinat-devel > sage-devel > sage-flame > sage-notebook > sage-nt > sage-solaris > sage-support > > How many did I forgot? Hang on: I remember that recently a new support > location was opened - but I don't remember where it was. Simply I > don't see the point of having such a place in addition to sage- > support, so, I won't go there.
It's http://ask.sagemath.org, and it's vastly different than sage-support. > There is a large overlap of these lists. For example, Sage is a > computer ALGEBRA project. Hence, the majority of development is > expected to be related with algebra. Sage is a "mathematics software" project. I do not think the phrase "CAS = computer algebra system" accurately describes Sage. Numerical and other non-algebraic approaches to mathematics are very important to Sage. > Thus, why is there a separate > list for algebra? And why is there, in addition to sage-algebra, also > sage-nt? > > Personally, I find it frustrating that category/coercion stuff is > expected to be discussed on sage-algebra (and then usually just > between 2 or 3 people) even though that topic usually touches the main > engine of Sage. And I could imagine that some people feel a similar > frustration in their respective topic, thus posting less frequently, > out of frustration. That's a very valid complaint. Maybe the proliferation of lists was a mistake. > I don't think that any of these lists had a traffic that would justify > splitting them up. I'd find it easier to follow two big lists than 8 > small lists. You may very well be right. -- William -- 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
