On 2011-11-16 09:12, syd.lavas...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi there, > > I would like to know what's the status of the function field package > development in Sage, i.e. this ticket: > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9054 Currently, it has positive_review which means that in theory it is ready to be merged. However, there is the dependency on #9138, which can only be merged together with #11900. As long as the latter ticket has no positive review, the function field code cannot be merged.
> I would like to know when is the tentative date of the release (though > I think I can download the patch and install it myself) Same answer as above: it all depends on #11900. But you don't really need to wait for this ticket to get merged in Sage. As you said, you can just apply the patches yourself. If you have trouble doing this, we will be glad to help you. > I'm starting to seriously code for my thesis and I would like to wash > my hands off of the closed source guilt. So, I thought , in the > process, I might be able to implement some of the functions that I > need (like finding the fixed field of an automorphism (last time I > checked , Magma was only doing it for number fields) and then add it > to sage. Excellent! > But for now, it seems that beside that general ticket there's no other > specific ticket targeting specific task related to function field. So > should I contact the package developer directly?it seems that there's > a team of developers working on this package, I would like to know > how I can join the team. I guess you should split your work into small logically separated parts and create a Trac ticket for each of the things. Don't just write one big patch doing many things, but write patches of the form "add feature X". It might be good to leave comments on #9054 pointing to this newly created tickets. > (Should I write directly to William Stein). Probably not, sage-devel is the right place to ask. Or also, the "comment" section on http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9054 Jeroen. -- 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
