On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Nathann Cohen <nathann.co...@gmail.com> wrote: >> contributions. E.g., they won't even consider a new component be >> added to Python unless somebody clearly commits to supporting the >> contribution for "five years". And of course the people making that >> commitment have to be reputable. We should do the same for Sage -- > > > <sarcasm> > Don't you think we should start by doing the same for Sage's own source > code? Anybody who proposes a patch should agree to do the > debugging/maintenance of what (s)he added for the next 5 years? Looks weird > to only have this high level of expectation for third-party code only, and > not for our own. > </sarcasm>
Hey I was just reporting on a conversation with Guido about what they *already* do with Python. > In Sage, we are at a level where some files don't have a clear "regular > maintainer". We would need to be 10x more developpers to enforce such rules. > Indeed -- Python probably has 10x more developers... maybe someday we will have way more developer time too. We don't now, as we are massively under-resourced. > For 'cliquer' in particular, maybe we could propose upstream a autotoolized > build system, and see how it goes? We did it for 'planarity' not so long ago > (and perhaps with others?). Our spkg-install file indeed contains several > platform-specific instructions. Huge +1. I'm all for Sage devs contributing upstream :-) > > Nathann > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
