On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Simon King <simon.k...@uni-jena.de> wrote: > Hi Rolf, > > first of all, I am sorry that I can not review it, myself, since > probability distributions are very far from my own field. > > More experienced developers may correct me, but I thought that one of > the responsibilities of the owner of a ticket is to approach potential > reviewers, if it is apparent that nobody else has noticed the ticket. > > If the owner forgot about the ticket (holidays and stuff), I think it > is perfectly fine if the author him- or herself asks on one of the > sage lists (probably sage-devel is a good choice, or a specialised > list if that exists for the given topic). > > If you know a potential reviewer, then you could ask that person by e- > mail, of course. Note that you can add people as "Cc" on a ticket; so, > if something changed, they'll be informed. > > I can understand your frustration. Some of my patches rotted on trac > for months, for instance #9138, #11115 and #11342 (sorry for the > ad...). > > Perhaps I am glorifying the past, but it seems to me that the > development process used to be "snappier" a few years ago.
This might be partly my fault since I purposely have been working (a lot) less directly on Sage during the last 2 years. I had to take a break to avoid burnout, and get momentum back on some of my other important work (e.g., research papers). When I was preparing for my talk [1] in Budapest last month I started feeling very inspired to spend much more time on mainline Sage again, and have been starting to work more on it. Working on getting the Sage trac ticket review process under control (see [2]), probably following the standard mathematics journal model, would be very valuable at this point in the development of Sage. [1] http://wstein.org/talks/2011-07-13-FoCM_plenary/ [2] http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/report/10 -- 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
