Well, that was quite motivating ! I agree with you, to be a developer, you need to be a user. While Sagemath has served me very well at times, I feel it is time for me to reciprocate, and help it become slightly better than before, as a result of my contribution ! I will take a few days, probably a week to try to understand the framework as a whole, and pick up a small part of it and go deep within to see how things work specifically for that ! :-)
Thank You, and Happy 2k16 ! Karan. On Saturday, January 2, 2016 at 10:52:28 PM UTC+5:30, Nathann Cohen wrote: > > Hellloooooooo Karan, > > Welcome here. Sage-devel is where we have all general discussions > related to Sage's development (the other occur on each Trac ticket). > You can ask anything here and we'll try to help as efficiently as we > can, though sometimes the answers will already be available in the > Developer's Manual. > > This developer's manual is probably the starting point you are looking > for: > > http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/index.html > > It will tell you many things about our procedures, though you need not > read all of it before starting, of course ! Browse it, know that it > exists, so that you will know in the future which of your questions > may find their answer there. > > In Sage we write Python code mainly, with some weird mix of Python and > C/C++ called Cython. You will see it used whenever we want more speed > than Python provide, and you can open any of our .pyx files if you are > curious about it. > > Mathematically speaking, I do not find Sage as complicated as I would > have first expected.... though I admittedly work in an area which is > not very very deep/complicated. None of us understands everything that > Sage contains: we do not know all the maths at once, but for each > file/folder you will find somebody here who knows and understands its > content. Some of us also have a wider view of things, like Volker > Braun who is our release manager: all our code, despite being > mathematically specific, has to be well-organised and interoperate > well. Plus it all has to compile/run on a wealth of different > platforms, and that is a distinct kind of knowledge that not everybody > has. > > I have not contributed to many open-source softwares, but I believe in > one thing: to be a developer, you must first be a user. Use Sage for > whatever you like/need, and if you ever find something > [missing/wrong/dangerous/undocumented/badly documented] .... do > something about it. Which can start by sending a message to > sage-devel, to make sure that we all agree that it has to change. > > A developer is merely a user who is unhappy about the software and > intends to set things right. > > Good luck, > > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
