It's certainly going to be exciting meeting several of you in Edinburgh in January (at http://www.aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/onlinedata.html) !
John On 23 November 2012 14:38, Paul-Olivier Dehaye <paul-olivier.deh...@math.uzh.ch> wrote: > Purkayashta: this would only address (in good or bad) a tiny part of the > development issues, those that have to do with version control. > Paul > > > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 2:01 PM, P Purkayastha <ppu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 11/23/2012 08:37 PM, Andrew Mathas wrote: >>> >>> Does anyone have any /concrete suggestions/ for how we could improve the >>> >>> "development model"? There is definitely room for improvement but short >>> of paying someone I don't have any good suggestions. The problem is that >>> what I want implemented is often different to what everyone else wants, >>> but thankfully there is some overlap and so some give and take. Ideas >>> anyone? >>> >>> Andrew >> >> >> There is already a move towards a git-based development model. I hope it >> will allow people to fork and experiment in their own branches quickly >> instead of the current method of using queues, trac patches, or "sage >> -clone", etc, which I find is a painful process. >> >> I would say the git model might work better. For instance look at the >> notebook. It is very easy to work with the development branch of any >> person's fork of the notebook. At present, you can even try out out the new >> UI by simply switching the notebook branch to samuela's fork. The switch >> takes about a second once you have the branch in your git. You can quickly >> also change back to the original notebook and resume your usual work with >> that as soon as you are done experimenting. The only hurdle that I see right >> now is the about 5-6 git commands one needs to know before one can start >> working with the development branch(es) of the notebook. Part of the next >> sage-git workshop is to create tools to make this setup (and contributing >> back) easy. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-combinat-devel" group. >> To post to this group, send email to sage-combinat-de...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> sage-combinat-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-combinat-devel?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
