Greetings, I help out with maintaining the sagemath package and many of its dependencies for the Fedora Linux distribution. While performing maintenance activities, I have produced a handful of patches that I would like to submit to you.
I found http://www.sagemath.org/development.html. The 2nd and 3rd bullets in the list ("SageMath FAQ" and "How to contribute to SageMath", respectively) go to the same place. That's because the 3rd bullet points to the first entry on the page pointed to by the 2nd bullet. I found this distinction more confusing than helpful. (My reaction on clicking the 3rd link was, "Wait, I just read this page! Did I accidentally click on the 2nd bullet again?". Click on the back button. Click on the 3rd bullet again. No, same place. Let's look at the URLs. Ohhhh.) I recommend you eliminate one of the two. I started working my way through the Sage Developer's Guide. Near the top, under the bullet named "Git (revision control)", is a link to http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/walk_through.html#chapter-walkthrough named "Here is an overview of our development flow". The third paragraph on the linked page says, "You can alternatively fork and create a pull request at github which will automatically fetch your code and open a ticket on our trac server." Oh, that's great! So I went to https://github.com/sagemath/sage, where at the top it clearly says, "Mirror of the Sage source tree -- please do not submit PRs here -- everything must be submitted via https://trac.sagemath.org/";. Wait, that contradicts what I just read in the walkthrough, doesn't it? Did I fail to understand something? I ignored the part about pull requests and worked my way through the rest of the guide. I filed trivial ticket 28124 just to make sure I understand the workflow before moving on. It would be great if the bit about pull requests could be clarified, though. If that really works, that would make submitting patches much simpler for me. Thanks for making such a great piece of software. -- Jerry James -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/73027b9d-997c-4ba1-a990-6db14760cfa2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
