Re: [sage-devel] trac password

2016-02-26 Thread Francois Bissey
Well, I am not sure how to reset password on the wiki. I thought the two were linked. But may be you can change the passwords separately. François > On 27/02/2016, at 17:20, Ralf Stephan wrote: > > If we're at it let me add that while my browser remembered the password this > doesn't help me w

Re: [sage-devel] trac password

2016-02-26 Thread Ralf Stephan
If we're at it let me add that while my browser remembered the password this doesn't help me with my incorrectly remembered password of the wiki. On Sat, Feb 27, 2016, 05:01 kcrisman wrote: > For future reference for others who may find this thread, there is a > dedicated place for people to ask

Re: [sage-devel] trac password

2016-02-26 Thread kcrisman
For future reference for others who may find this thread, there is a dedicated place for people to ask for new Trac accounts, and that can work for resetting passwords - though François is right to point out that using the email address on file with Trac is best. http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Sage Project (Nathann Cohen)

2016-02-26 Thread kcrisman
> > WHY THE HELL IS SO MUCH MONEY AND TIME SPENT ON DOING IT IN STEAD OF > > AUTOMATING IT AWAY! > > I think you are misunderstanding what kind of boring work we are talking > about. For example, porting Sage to Python 3 is certainly boring but > cannot be fully automated. There are too

Re: [sage-devel] Should the 2015 Spies Prize be accorded to Nathann Cohen?

2016-02-26 Thread William Stein
Lest this thread goes any further, Nathann wrote to me offlist: "There is no way on earth that I will accept this." So no point in continuing this discussion. It would be like trying to give a Fields medal to Perelman. On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 2:34 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2016

Re: [sage-devel] Should the 2015 Spies Prize be accorded to Nathann Cohen?

2016-02-26 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Sébastien Labbé wrote: > Deaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaear sage-devel, > > I would like to give the 2015 Spies Prize to Nathann Cohen as he is one of > the main contributor of Sage in the last ~7 years that has still not > received the Spies Prize. Nathann has been involved i

[sage-devel] Re: Should the 2015 Spies Prize be accorded to Nathann Cohen?

2016-02-26 Thread Nathann Cohen
> > I have high hopes of winning this prize, however: > > > https://www.flinders.edu.au/science_engineering/csem/research/programs/flinders-hamiltonian-cycle-project/fhcpcs.cfm > (In my enthusiasm, I failed to mention that this HCP guerilla is a team work with David Coudert. Who still hasn'

[sage-devel] Re: Should the 2015 Spies Prize be accorded to Nathann Cohen?

2016-02-26 Thread Nathann Cohen
Hello Sebastien, It's awfully kind of you but I accept a very very limited range of currencies, and it seems that Sage has gone bankrupt recently: I like to be paid with honest answers, and there's no market on which I can buy some with USD. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-devel/D8tF8

[sage-devel] Should the 2015 Spies Prize be accorded to Nathann Cohen?

2016-02-26 Thread Sébastien Labbé
Deaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaear sage-devel, I would like to give the 2015 Spies Prize to Nathann Cohen as he is one of the main contributor of Sage in the last ~7 years that has still not received the Spies Prize. Nathann has been involved in many aspects of Sage, contributed a lot of code including doc

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Sage Project (Nathann Cohen)

2016-02-26 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 11:24 AM, parisse wrote: > >> > But as I understand your messages about SMC, SMC is much more agnostic >> > than >> > sage, it's more about providing users easy access to opensource math >> > software/languages, and also a hosting service and collaboration >> > platform. I

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Sage Project (Nathann Cohen)

2016-02-26 Thread parisse
> > But as I understand your messages about SMC, SMC is much more agnostic > than > > sage, it's more about providing users easy access to opensource math > > software/languages, and also a hosting service and collaboration > platform. I > > think there is/will be a lot of competition in thi

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Sage Project (Nathann Cohen)

2016-02-26 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2016-02-26 18:39, Martin Vahi wrote: WHY THE HELL IS SO MUCH MONEY AND TIME SPENT ON DOING IT IN STEAD OF AUTOMATING IT AWAY! I think you are misunderstanding what kind of boring work we are talking about. For example, porting Sage to Python 3 is certainly boring but cannot be fully au

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Sage Project (Nathann Cohen)

2016-02-26 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Nathann Cohen wrote: > Note that so far, I'm trying to figure this all out by talking with > almost everybody and I am quite eager to read his answer to [4]. I've said everything I have to say for now. -- William -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You receive

Re: [sage-devel] GSOC 2016-Regression test framework

2016-02-26 Thread Jayamine A.
I read the whole conversation to get an idea It is about server side(we can call it developers side). 1) check the accuracy of each function/method 2) check the time for each function/method Is there other opinions about client side testing? On Friday, February 26, 2016 at 12:49:32 PM UTC+5:30

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Sage Project (Nathann Cohen)

2016-02-26 Thread Nathann Cohen
> sagemath.com absorbing sagemath.org, confusions between Sage and SMC, I meant "absorbing sagemath.org's traffic". Sorry for that. Nathann -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Sage Project (Nathann Cohen)

2016-02-26 Thread Nathann Cohen
> With the full understanding that I'm pouring some gasoline into the flames > right now, I still say that everybody, including me and Nathann, have the > "right" to be mistaken. It seems that I was mistaken indeed. As Miguel Marco noticed [1], my opinion on many things changed since an email conv

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Sage Project (Nathann Cohen)

2016-02-26 Thread Martin Vahi
reede, 26. veebruar 2016 15:54.54 UTC kirjutas William: > > ... > ODK impact > will be very positive for open source math software, but won't solve > the hugely important "boring work" problem you mention above. > ... > I see a general pattern here and the pattern is the one that I have se

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Sage Project (Nathann Cohen)

2016-02-26 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 9:11 AM, parisse wrote: > > > Le vendredi 26 février 2016 16:54:54 UTC+1, William a écrit : >> >> >> Just to clarify (and make things easier), the mission statement, and >> indeed Sage itself, is about the *entire ecosystem* of open source >> math software, including your s

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Sage Project (Nathann Cohen)

2016-02-26 Thread parisse
Le vendredi 26 février 2016 16:54:54 UTC+1, William a écrit : > > > Just to clarify (and make things easier), the mission statement, and > indeed Sage itself, is about the *entire ecosystem* of open source > math software, including your software (Giac, which is of course > installed on SageMa

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage Project (Nathann Cohen)

2016-02-26 Thread Martin Vahi
reede, 26. veebruar 2016 7:51.20 UTC kirjutas Nathann Cohen: > > Hello William, > ... > With the full understanding that I'm pouring some gasoline into the flames right now, I still say that everybody, including me and Nathann, have the "right" to be mistaken. The way I try to approach my stupi

Re: [sage-devel] GSOC 2016-Regression test framework

2016-02-26 Thread Jayamine A.
To get an idea i read the whole conversation What i gained is On Friday, February 26, 2016 at 12:49:32 PM UTC+5:30, Clemens Heuberger wrote: > > > On 2016-02-26 04:50, Jayamine A. wrote: > > But when we are dealing with clients(users) we need both.(My opinion) > > That was basically my opi

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Sage Project (Nathann Cohen)

2016-02-26 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Francesco Biscani wrote: > I think your points are very important. Competing with a commercial CAS (or > with any commercial software really) is much more about boring aspects of > software development rather than exciting ones. In my experience the FLOSS > communi

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Sage Project (Nathann Cohen)

2016-02-26 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 4:44 AM, parisse wrote: > Regarding the mission statement, I'm a little bit skeptic one can build a > viable alternative to Magma on one side and Maple, Mathematica, Matlab on > the other side. Magma is a very specialized software that is probably > unknown to most mathemat

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Sage Project (Nathann Cohen)

2016-02-26 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 4:17 AM, Andrew wrote: > [...] Moreover, William has added that any income generated by the > company will be used to fund further development. I'm happy with that. Technically, I cannot guarantee that all income generated by the company will be used to fund further develo

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Sage Project (Nathann Cohen)

2016-02-26 Thread Francesco Biscani
I think your points are very important. Competing with a commercial CAS (or with any commercial software really) is much more about boring aspects of software development rather than exciting ones. In my experience the FLOSS community can excel at solving technically challenging problem, but it oft

[sage-devel] Re: Bye

2016-02-26 Thread mmarco
Wow, this whole discussion, and the subsequent thread opened by William have really blown my mind a little bit. I disagree with most of the objections raised by Nathann. I have to say that the impression I got from them at the beginning have changed as the discussion has evolved and his points

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage Project (Nathann Cohen)

2016-02-26 Thread parisse
Regarding the mission statement, I'm a little bit skeptic one can build a viable alternative to Magma on one side and Maple, Mathematica, Matlab on the other side. Magma is a very specialized software that is probably unknown to most mathematicians, and almost certainly unknown in other scienti

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Blog post: "If you were new faculty, would you start something like SageMathCloud sooner?"

2016-02-26 Thread Martin Vahi
neljapäev, 25. veebruar 2016 23:16.50 UTC kirjutas William: > > > It is very true that -- for whatever reason -- certain companies are > at least somewhat systematically supporting open source. Recently > Google and Microsoft (!) are two such companies.. > ... > I do not want to spam this th

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage Project (Nathann Cohen)

2016-02-26 Thread Andrew
I sat by and watched the previous thread develop with disbelief but without saying anything, so let me say it now. In the last thread there were a lot of negative comments from Nathan and many others trying to reason with him: Nathan against the world. I hope that this is not going to be repeate

Re: [sage-devel] trac password

2016-02-26 Thread Francois Bissey
And sorry for being picky but being a gate keeper is part of my paid job duties. I have to take these things very seriously for professional reasons. François > On 26/02/2016, at 21:35, Ralf Stephan wrote: > > Ah ok, I still can. Sorry for the noise. > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 9:22 AM Francoi

[sage-devel] Re: Blog post: "If you were new faculty, would you start something like SageMathCloud sooner?"

2016-02-26 Thread Simon King
Hi Martin, On 2016-02-25, Martin Vahi wrote: > I'm no genius, I can not measure up to the Albert Einstein, but it is a > fact that the Albert Einstein got its Nobel Prize for studying the light > bulb, not for his theory of relativity. Not for relativity, but also certainly not for the light b

Re: [sage-devel] trac password

2016-02-26 Thread Ralf Stephan
Ah ok, I still can. Sorry for the noise. On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 9:22 AM Francois Bissey < francois.bis...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > OK so this is the address Ralf post on sage’s mailing list even if it > isn’t the one > on trac. > What happened to you that you suddenly can’t login on trac? > >

Re: [sage-devel] trac password

2016-02-26 Thread Francois Bissey
OK so this is the address Ralf post on sage’s mailing list even if it isn’t the one on trac. What happened to you that you suddenly can’t login on trac? François > On 26/02/2016, at 21:07, Ralf Stephan wrote: > > Please send me a new trac password. > > -- > You received this message because

Re: [sage-devel] trac password

2016-02-26 Thread Francois Bissey
This message has not been sent with the address we have on record for Ralf Stephan. Furthermore Ralf logged in 42 hours ago. I need to be convinced of the identity of the poster before sending a new password anywhere. François > On 26/02/2016, at 21:07, Ralf Stephan wrote: > > Please send me a

[sage-devel] trac password

2016-02-26 Thread Ralf Stephan
Please send me a new trac password. -- 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 s