[sage-devel] Re: Proposal: Creating a SageMath Advisory Board

2024-06-26 Thread Matthias Koeppe
On Wednesday, June 26, 2024 at 7:03:16 AM UTC-7 Dima Pasechnik wrote: I have hard time understanding the role of such a board in the current "0-governance" model we have. Asking people to advice and then happily ignoring it does not make much sense. OTOH such a board would make a lot of sense if

[sage-devel] Re: Invitation to Participate in Survey: Governance and Community building

2024-06-26 Thread Eric Gourgoulhon
Thank you very much for this initiative! Best wishes, Eric. Le mercredi 26 juin 2024 à 16:10:07 UTC+2, jplab a écrit : > Dear SageMath Community, > > As most of you are likely aware, our communication platforms surrounding > the development of Sagemath have unfortunately been the scene of > i

[sage-devel] Re: eclib version checking

2024-06-26 Thread John Cremona
Dime correctly diagnosed the problem, and I just made a trivial PR to fix it: https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/38284 John On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 at 15:26, John Cremona wrote: > In build/pkgs/eclib/spkg-configure.m4 tere is code to check whether an > already installed version of eclib is new e

Re: [sage-devel] eclib version checking

2024-06-26 Thread Dima Pasechnik
there are two tests - and you get the failure on the 2st one, which checks for equality of versions, in PKG_CHECK_MODULES. You need to change '=' there to '>=' (and ./bootstrap) On 26 June 2024 15:30:53 BST, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >On Wed, 2024-06-26 at 15:26 +0100, John Cremona wrote: >> In

Re: [sage-devel] eclib version checking

2024-06-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Wed, 2024-06-26 at 15:26 +0100, John Cremona wrote: > In build/pkgs/eclib/spkg-configure.m4 tere is code to check whether an > already installed version of eclib is new enough. It use to check that the > version agreed exactly, but now it uses [ge] ("greater or equal") to do > this. > Did you

[sage-devel] eclib version checking

2024-06-26 Thread John Cremona
In build/pkgs/eclib/spkg-configure.m4 tere is code to check whether an already installed version of eclib is new enough. It use to check that the version agreed exactly, but now it uses [ge] ("greater or equal") to do this. BUT I have version 20240408 installed which has greater than the minimal

[sage-devel] Invitation to Participate in Survey: Governance and Community building

2024-06-26 Thread jplab
Dear SageMath Community, As most of you are likely aware, our communication platforms surrounding the development of Sagemath have unfortunately been the scene of inappropriate behavior, which has impacted our progress and overall community atmosphere. In light of this, and as part of our ong

[sage-devel] Re: Proposal: Creating a SageMath Advisory Board

2024-06-26 Thread Dima Pasechnik
I have hard time understanding the role of such a board in the current "0-governance" model we have. Asking people to advice and then happily ignoring it does not make much sense. OTOH such a board would make a lot of sense if we had a real management board, constantly active, and which can be a