On Sunday, April 1, 2012, Minh Nguyen <mvngu.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > It is a fact universally acknowledged that an open source developer > with an idea is in need of a way to effectively implement the idea. > Distributed version control systems such as Mercurial, Git, etc. form > the early stage in the evolution of processes of software development. > The major idea of this first stage is forking. That is, you see > something wrong with a piece of code or you want to improve something. > What you would do is fork the code by creating your own working > repository. This is all well and good. > > But is there another way to improve our habits of software > development? I believe yes. The latest craze that has swept the open > source world by hurricane... err... storm is spooning. To understand > what spooning is, have a look at the tutorial video at > > https://bitbucket.org/spooning/ > > There, you will learn about spooning by watching other developers > spooning. I want to propose that we adopt spooning as part of our > development process. I vote in favour. Please cast your vote below. > > [] Yes, I want spooning to be part of the Sage development process. > > [] No, thank you. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. >
[x ] no, we haven't even finished migrating to sourceforge + svn yet, and the AIX port is in bad shape. After that is done we can consider spooning. - william, 06:55:00 2012-04-01, Bristol, UK > -- > Regards, > Minh Van Nguyen > http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/mvngu/ > > -- > 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 > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
