>
> I'm not part of this community, yet, may be never, but from my perspective
> You are welcome "back" any time.
>
+1
Though in open source development (at least in open development projects
like this one) meaning that sometimes people will hit the road over
disagreements, everyone should definitely thank Nathann for loads and loads
of work, especially in graphs and combinatorial objects:
$ ./sage --version
SageMath Version 7.1.beta3, Release Date: 2016-02-11
$ git log --author="Nathann Cohen" --pretty=oneline | wc -l
1736
I for one hope this is just a temporary hiatus.
To elaborate, while it's true that there are a few axes of division that
can and do crop up:
* GPL/BSD/other license arguments
* Disagreements in whether things are a bug or not
* Relative use of forums for Sage-the-library versus Sage-the-distribution
versus SMC-the-code versus SMC-the-paid-service
* Who gets to decide on user interface
and lots of others, I hope that despite all these (very real and not
trivial) differences we can still feel like working on Sage is, overall, a
joy and not a burden. When it becomes a burden - and I think it has
probably been so at times for most long-term developers - taking a break
before returning when the time is right is the right thing to do. Even the
BDFL has done this when the referee process became too onerous, if I recall
correctly (not counting the current focus on the other project). So don't
forget about breaks!
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