Kind of like publishing and important and foundational research paper...? On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 1:49 PM Eric Gourgoulhon <egourgoul...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Le dimanche 15 janvier 2017 21:24:37 UTC+1, Kwankyu Lee a écrit : > > You managed to develop SageManifolds separately from Sage, and then to > integrate the code fully with Sage. I am curious how this is done. It looks > daunting to me to chop out big code to small patches for gradual merge, > without breaking Sage. > > Current Sage development workflow forces an author of a project developed > externally to work in this way. Was your experience a pleasant one to > recommend this way or do you think we need a better and alternative way for > future authors? > > > Indeed it took time to split the original SageManifolds package into many > tickets, but it was also the occasion to think again about the whole code > structure. Above all, the interaction with the reviewers and the whole Sage > community (through questions I posted on this list) was very fruitful and > instructive to me. One of the reviewers, Travis Scrimshaw helped a lot, > improving the quality of the code and its documentation. He also modified > some parts quite substantially, introducing new constructions. So yes it > was a pleasant experience and I do not regret the choice of such a > development workflow, despite one of its main drawback: until all the > tickets were merged, its was difficult for people to add new features. But > now, I expect that it will be much easier, hence the proposed contribute > page. > > > Would you share your experience, in some place like > https://wiki.sagemath.org/CodeSharingWorkflow > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.sagemath.org%2FCodeSharingWorkflow&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFZ7wCOoI93etxJhJuJolgOnJ4VNA> > ? > > > Yes, I may add something there. > > Best wishes, > > Eric. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > 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. > > > -- Sent from my massive iPhone 6 plus. -- 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.
