> Hi Francois, > > On 31 Jul., 23:48, Francois Bissey <francois.bis...@canterbury.ac.nz> > > wrote: > > You forgot debian-sage > > Indeed. Sorry. > > Actually I attempted completeness; I did some searches, but debian- > sage has not been found. It is another list that had no activity since > Oct. 05, 2010. > > I hope you allow a direct question: Did you have the impression that > the existence of a small list (just 40 members, sage-marketing has > even less) dedicated to a particular project (packaging Sage) helped > to increase the intensity of work on that project, since it made it > more easy to focus? Or did it decrease intensity, since there has only > been little feed-back from the swarm? >
In the case of sage-marketing, no impact what so ever since I had no clue such a list existed. > How many people are aware of debian-sage (or further lists that I may > have forgotten as well)? Is my fear justified that progress on a > project is lost, if information on that progress is buried in an > almost forgotten list? > Not many, according to William it was misnamed as well since we ended up working accross linux distributions. There are not many people packaging for linux distro. There was Tim Abbott for debian for a while, me and three other core members work (semi-)regularly on sage-on-gentoo. Paulo Cesar de Andrade maintains sage on Mandriva. There may be others I am not aware off. I discussed the matter of a separate mailing list with Paulo but there wouldn't be enough traffic. I have irregular communications with Paulo. It is a bit of pity. sage-on-gentoo generates a bit of traffic on the gentoo-science mailing list and the occasional thread here. You could say I mostly work beyond the scene on sage-devel by pushing my distro's agenda :) . I guess there are a number of emails that I had with Burcin about sage-prefix and some other members of sage-on-gentoo that would be material for sage-devel but some people may object us discusing it here. Plus some of these people actually favor private email. You could say that's an even worst scenario than being buried on an obscure mailing list. Francois This email may be confidential and subject to legal privilege, it may not reflect the views of the University of Canterbury, and it is not guaranteed to be virus free. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and erase all copies of the message and any attachments. Please refer to http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/emaildisclaimer for more information. -- 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
