Hi all,
In very short:
> You are totally independent of Sage, you don't *NEED* to
> contribute to have your version of it evolve
Not quite true: we do pay a heavy price for each and every patch that
is not merged: we have to keep rebasing them. I can tell you that it
*hurts*. We all agree that we should get more patches in *and* we are
working on it.
Another fact: many of the patches in the Sage-Combinat queue have
strong dependencies. This not just because we screwed up our splitting
of the task; it is intrinsic to the things we are developing. In the
dependencies are things that are basically out of our control
(e.g. the patches around #715) that are super technical and that just
take time to get into Sage. Given this, there is nothing we can do but
keep those patches alive. That being said, I certainly take the blame
for not finishing faster the "more functorial patch" faster.
Last fact: many of us spent weeks, if not months, at Sage days this
year training newcomers. Don't worry, we *are* getting strong feedback
from outsiders.
Cheers,
Nicolas
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http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/
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