William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> writes: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Keshav Kini <keshav.k...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> writes: >>> On 3/15/12 10:10 AM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >>>>> Do you have your merger script under any kind of revision control? >>>> No. >>> >>> It might make sense to include these scripts with Sage, managed under >>> the sage root repository, for example, or in sage/local/bin. >> >> Is the merger script realistically "part of Sage"? Only one person >> actually runs it. (On the other hand we also ship MoinMoin for some >> reason, even though only one person runs that, too.) > > I thought MoinMoin will soon be removed from Sage.
There was some discussion about it but I don't think anyone opened a ticket. >> And with the >> current state of our repositories, putting it under revision control in >> one of them might hurt more than it helps... > > I definitely think the release management scripts should be shipped with Sage. > Your argument against it is: > > (1) Only one person runs them, > > which is silly, since this conversation started because more than one > person wants to run them, and > > (2) Our repository sucks, so why bother, > > which is just counterproductive. I'm not arguing against shipping it with Sage. I just brought up some possible reasons why one might not want to do so. The reason I asked whether it was in some repo was that if so, I should be committing to that repo if I change anything. Anyway, you're right that complaining that "our repository sucks so why bother" is counterproductive. Sorry. The alternative is of course to make our repository suck less, which I will continue to push for... -Keshav ---- Join us in #sagemath on irc.freenode.net -- 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