Le dimanche 23 septembre 2018 08:18:21 UTC+2, Dominique Laurain a écrit : > > > Travis : "I'm sorry, but that really sounds like "I want to get really > good without practicing". > > My hobby time credit is quite limited and there is a hugge difference > between "without practicing" and good dev time management inducing > *awareness* about the main Tools (or how to make good code being lazy, or > taking account NIH). ... "without practicing" is a RTFM answer. > > Travis : "From my experience, the biggest issue that prevents people from > fixing bugs in Sage is getting used to our development workflow and > learning how to work with git (and more generally, version control > software). " > > My main concern or the main reason why I am not prone for fixing bugs is > the workflow too...but not because of learning new Tools. > > Apart from fixing "small bugs", modifications could be rejected by a "peer > review" ... so why wasting time ? >
Dominique : a "peer review" is not a boolean accept/reject. A rejection *has* to be motivated. Maybe there are things to be *learned* from the motivation of a rejection ? Just as a theorem, a patch has to convince your interlocutor(s) that you are right. In other words, it is not sufficient to be right : you have to *prove* that you are right... Yes, there is also the possibility of punctilious and/or pigheaded reviewer(s). In that case, why not take advice from other participants ? Granted, this makes the Sage development process a bit of a debating society. But the academic world *has been* a debating society since inception (about a millenium ago). It survived... > > If peers are only the judges for a final result and not the helpers, why > give time with no reward. > Who should judge ? your grocer ? ;-) > > For example : why correcting bugs in a graph package .... if all the > graphs code will be soon removed from the sagemath modules, because of a > "wonderful" new peer idea ? > Hey ! If you think that the "new peer"'s idea is bad, feel free to criticize it (and even reject it) *with motivation* ! As long as your criticism is in good faith, your interlocutor will learn from it. > > Dominique. > > > > -- 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.
