I am feeling inclined to open a trac ticket with the purpose of going through everyhting I have written in the Sage library and making sure that there's an AUTHOR block with my name on it wherever appropriate! And if all current developers would do the same....
John On 23 September 2015 at 03:08, Nathann Cohen <nathann.co...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This argument is unconvincing to me; it's too black and white. You >> could also make the same argument about the majority of content in >> every research paper ever written. Just because "people" do things >> doesn't automatically imply that what they do is not even remotely >> correct. And our extensive testing framework in Sage -- which at >> least helps -- doesn't at all imply that the code in Sage is correct. > > You may not like the argument, but appreciate at least the current > status: it is far from being reliable in any way. > > That is is *because* it is maintained manually is my opinion of it, > but does not change the current status. > > Though you cannot ignore it totally either: we don't all manage those > authors blocks the same way, plus we have different opinions about > it... I don't see it work anytime soon unless it becomes mandatory > like the 'author' field in a trac ticket. > > And, again, the same way that we removed changelogs from SPKG.txt > files, let's not have a changelog in every function. > > Nathann > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
