> Nathann: William,
I'm sorry to say that the situation is not as simple as "You suggest, and you are happy to see people doing it for you". Sometimes, people do stuff because nobody would do it otherwise. They feel responsible as members of the community, and so give it a try. I swear: trust me. And by merely "suggesting stuff and waiting for others to (happily) do it" the truth is that you sometimes *use* those people. Once, on a trac ticket, I saw something like that: "Of course this implementation is unnecessarily slow, but someday somebody will see it and improve it". For somebody like me, it comes very close to forcing me to improve it: because I do not accept to see a very obviously slow algorithm in Sage when I see a clear way to improve it: we deserve better (*). I can only pray that not too many people will grow this "much bigger picture longterm strategic view of things" that you mentionned. Because each time it happens (you cite Nicolas Thierry as an example) we lose a developer and those they take with them. And there is work to be done. Work which will only be done by those who remain. Some key people who, like you, are hardly repleacable: how many persons do you think have what it takes to change Sage's build system? I'd say three: Volker, Jeroen and you. Perhaps there are others: I don't even know enough to give the full list. But you cannot expect this to be done by one person, it takes a *lot* of time and skill, and we are not enough. So please, now that you have seen the "much bigger picture longterm strategic view of things", come down here and get your hands dirty. We can't do the job if those who know how to do it think that they are above it. Nathann (*) On this ticket, they *knew* what was wrong. They just did not care enough to spend the time. -- 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.
