Hello William, I don't think that I disagree with any of the goals you aim at for Sage. I certainly don't see anything wrong with your involvement in seeing it come true. I don't see anything wrong in the way you embrace the problems you meet on the way and try to address them.
My main complaint about it all, is that you seem to think about it as if you were still alone in the task. So alone that those who have been developing it since you stopped are hardly part of the picture you drew (and that's many persons, and that's many years). Two problems that I see: 1) You expect people to participate to a task, but make by yourself decisions which involve all of them. Sometimes without informing them, least of all discussing the plan with them. 2) So doing, and because they are not part of the story, you overlook that they could also help better toward what seem urgent to you: they could, if you involved them more. It's like you delegated development to the people here, and now have your hands free to do whatever you think needs be done. And so doing, people here who contribute to sage (and who grew an interest for turning Sage into the perfect math software -- all sides of the question considered) are not invited to step on this second terrain, where you still seem to think as if you were alone against the world. About your short description of me: be fair. I do not even understand what you mean by 'academic use only' (and I'm fine with the GPL) but yes, I would prefer all decisions to be taken democratically. Even the non-technical decisions. Having sagemath.com redirect elsewhere than sagemath.org was one of them. Creating a for-profit company with the same name as the software was another. "With idealistic goals of purity": be fair. I request more democratic decisions, and if there is *anything* you can grant me it is the very clear knowledge that my opininions are not always shared by everybody. When I ask for more democratic decisions, I am sharply aware of the differences. But more democracy, indeed, would be an improvement. "it's ethically wrong to make a release of Sage with known bugs!": be fair. I fixed too many of them to believe that I never add any, or that none remains. What was ethically wrong in the instance you are apparently refeering to was the *removal of a warning* from a code that we knew returned wrong results. Finally: I don't see this project achieving the aim you defined without somebody like you. You have the devotion, the energy, the talent. As a human being, however, I find it hard to contribute to Sage if you see it as a relatively unimportant subtask of a bigger plan over which the community has no claim. Have fun, 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.
