Re: [sage-devel] Are there plans to try to reduce the inner inconsistencies in sage?

2025-01-03 Thread William Stein
Georgi, Also, you can browse all of the currently 5006 open "plans" for Sage here: https://github.com/sagemath/sage/issues -- William On Fri, Jan 3, 2025 at 7:07 AM Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > On 3 January 2025 03:00:20 GMT-05:00, Georgi Guninski > wrote: > >I

Re: [sage-devel] Installing 32-bit Linux on an old laptop

2024-12-15 Thread William Stein
the "Send files to emulator" button off to the right. You can save the exact state of the VM though (at the top) to avoid loss of work. -- William > > Without that, eclib will not get any 32-bit testing, unfortunately. > > John > > On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 at 12:46, V

Re: [sage-devel] Re: [debian-science] Modularized sagemath packages: proof of concept

2024-10-16 Thread William Stein
el" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/79e2d59c-162d-4162-acb7-7ee7ae958324n%40googlegroups.com &

Re: [sage-devel] `ask.sagemath.org` down (again) ?

2024-10-10 Thread William Stein
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Re: [sage-devel] Re: [debian-science] Modularized sagemath packages: proof of concept

2024-10-07 Thread William Stein
age produced things that are useful, a lot of projects wouldn't touch them due to the GPLv3 license. (Networkx used to be GPL licensed and they somehow managed to relicense as BSD.) Michael Orlitzky dismissed my comments about licensing in this thread, and I really wish he were

Re: [sage-devel] Re: [debian-science] Modularized sagemath packages: proof of concept

2024-10-07 Thread William Stein
ver a similar part of sage, just because of the license. I don't think there is anything to be done about this. It's just something to be aware of, which will forever significantly limit the impact of Sage on the broader Python ecosystem. - William On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 6:26 AM Mar

Re: [sage-devel] Suspension of a developer

2024-10-04 Thread William Stein
I had stopped reading the Sage mailing lists due to drama, and am now re-enabling my subscriptions. Thank you, William On Friday, October 4, 2024 at 9:32:13 AM UTC-7 vdelecroix wrote: > It is a very sad news that such measure had to be taken. I fully trust > the committee in its de

[sage-devel] sage optional packages

2024-07-25 Thread William Stein
to contribute to the testing and maintenance of these packages. Thank you for your time and all the work you put into SageMath. Best regards, William http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this

Re: [sage-devel] Re: wasm

2024-04-30 Thread 'William Stein' via sage-devel
Hi, Thanks Dima for mentioning CoWasm. Unfortunately, I ran out of resources to work on cowasm, so there likely won't be any further work on it until things change. -- William On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 2:53 PM Dima Pasechnik wrote: > It's interesting to compare this with the d

Re: [sage-devel] Re: conda sage

2024-03-13 Thread William Stein
With switching to Miniforge it is now working for me extremely well. I’m going to be making a new video and tutorial about this soon. Thanks for all you do Isuru! -- William Stein On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 9:11 AM Isuru Fernando wrote: > Hi William, > > Let me know if you have any

Re: [sage-devel] stopping cypari2, pari-jupyter and pplpy maintenance

2024-03-12 Thread William Stein
help guide whoever takes over. -- William On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 10:44 AM Vincent Delecroix < 20100.delecr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I used to be the maintainer of cypari2, pari-jupyter and pplpy. I will > not work anymore on any of them from now on. The three pr

Re: [sage-devel] Re: conda sage

2024-03-10 Thread William Stein
.. On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 5:31 PM William Stein wrote: > I was just carefully reading the page about Mambaforge linked to from > Sage, i.e., this page > > https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge > > and it says that Mambaforge is deprecated and no longer recommended, and > instead

Re: [sage-devel] Re: conda sage

2024-03-10 Thread William Stein
-$(uname)-$(uname -m).sh sh Miniforge3-$(uname)-$(uname -m).sh -b -u -p /conda -- William On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 4:05 PM William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > So I was using MicroMamba, whereas that page says Sage only > supports Mambaforge, Miniforge, Miniconda or Anaconda.I tried w

Re: [sage-devel] Re: conda sage

2024-03-10 Thread William Stein
x27;s easy to switch Python versions. So I'll switch from using MicroMamba to Mambaforge. Problem solved. William On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 1:47 PM William Stein wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 1:39 PM Matthias Koeppe > wrote: > >> William, do the instructions in

Re: [sage-devel] Re: conda sage

2024-03-10 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 1:39 PM Matthias Koeppe wrote: > William, do the instructions in our Installation Guide work for you? > > https://deploy-livedoc--sagemath.netlify.app/html/en/installation/conda#install-from-conda-forge > > > Note in particular this step: "Cha

[sage-devel] conda sage

2024-03-10 Thread William Stein
-- NameError Traceback (most recent call last) Cell In[1], line 1 > 1 factor(Integer(2024)) NameError: name 'factor' is not defined sage: William -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscr

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Application for NumFOCUS affiliation of SageMath

2024-03-10 Thread William Stein
I remember they added some type inference optimizations, and generally greatly improved the unit testing. I've cc'd Robert and Craig in case they want to add anything. Sage has always been I think by far the biggest Cython user, and testing of Cython by Sage helps ensure better stability and

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Application for NumFOCUS affiliation of SageMath

2024-03-05 Thread William Stein
Hi, Related to NumFOCUS, this new proposal for Jupyter to restructure their relationship with NumFocus is possibly relevant: https://jupyter.org/governance/linux-proposal.html William On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 12:59 PM Matthias Koeppe wrote: > In case people are interested in a synchron

Re: [sage-devel] VOTE: Use "CI Fix" label for merging into continuous integration runs

2024-03-04 Thread William Stein
quot; group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/77cc05b2-1c52-4aae-80ca-4d0ec0830e2dn%

Re: [sage-devel] Re: VOTE: use "blocker" label only for PRs; use "critical" label for Issues

2024-02-28 Thread William Stein
eate a plot with a large y-axis range, the labels on the y axis are mathematically incorrect, which is confusing to our largest group of users (beginners). -- William > > Eric. > > Le mercredi 28 février 2024 à 07:45:03 UTC+1, Kwankyu Lee a écrit : > >> Hi, >> >&

[sage-devel] Bug in finding generators of elliptic curves over a quadratic domain

2024-02-26 Thread William Paulsen
I ran the following code in SageMath 10.2: sage: K. = QuadraticField(2) sage: E = EllipticCurve([0, 60/49*a - 135/49, 0, -576/343*a + 904/343, 0]); E Elliptic Curve defined by y^2 = x^3 + (60/49*a-135/49)*x^2 + (-576/343*a+904/343)*x over Number Field in a with defining polynomial x^2 - 2 with

Re: [sage-devel] Proposal: Make pytest, pytest_xdist, pytest_mock, python_build standard packages

2024-02-10 Thread William Stein
(Also, thanks everyone for so far taking extra effort to be civil when discussing the topic of vendored dependencies, which I know touches a nerve for people.) On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 4:36 PM William Stein wrote: > > Hi Dima, > > I believe I'm the person who introduced that lon

Re: [sage-devel] Proposal: Make pytest, pytest_xdist, pytest_mock, python_build standard packages

2024-02-10 Thread William Stein
same package in the sage source distro is being scanned. I hope you do bring this to a vote, and feel free to copy my above statement of support. I also strongly agree with Matthias that a vote about pip installability may be considered separately from a vote to add these testing packages. -

[sage-devel] Disputed Pull Requests / Role Sage-Abuse and the Code of Conduct

2024-01-10 Thread William Stein
itive experience for everyone participating in Sage development. Best regards, Volker Braun and William Stein [1] https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+label%3Adisputed -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [sage-devel] Wanted: Unicode testers with PR #36861

2023-12-14 Thread William Stein
ither. -- William On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 2:01 PM Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 9:30 PM William Stein wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Last time I benchmarked things, luatex was sometimes the slowest of > > the three major latex compilers, sometimes by

Re: [sage-devel] Wanted: Unicode testers with PR #36861

2023-12-14 Thread William Stein
, performance could matter. I had nothing to do with them making xelatex the default, and I think Lua and Luatex are beautiful pieces of software. -- William On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 1:22 PM Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > Hi Doris, > It just has been turned to use lualatex > > HTH > Dima

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Policy for disputed PRs: discussion

2023-11-30 Thread William Stein
t;>> Then the voting period starts when the three labels are added. >>> >>> I suggest to end the voting when a week has passed after the last vote >>> was casted. >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >

Re: [sage-devel] Poll: deprecate backslash operator

2023-09-30 Thread William Stein
Again, as the person who added it to Sage in the first place: deprecate. William On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 4:02 PM Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > deprecate! > > On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 10:47 PM John H Palmieri > wrote: > > > > I asked this already but with a different sub

Re: [sage-devel] Questions about performance of SageMath, and of graph (algorithms) libraries

2023-09-30 Thread William Stein
ary is https://github.com/rapidsai/cugraph which is a reimplementation of networkx on top of CUDA. Presumably, with an appropriate GPU, it provides massive speedups over networkx. I haven't tried it out yet, but I plan to. -- William On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 5:52 AM Jing Guo wrote: >

Re: [sage-devel] Re: keywords in github

2023-09-29 Thread William Stein
simple index on the words, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread. I hope the group that massively improved code search will do the same for issue search. William -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel&quo

Re: [sage-devel] Discussion and poll: should Sage Integers have a backslash operator?

2023-09-27 Thread William Stein
les in a way that works without the preparser). -- William On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 3:09 PM John H Palmieri wrote: > > Okay, so maybe we should open this to other options: should we get rid of > preparsing "\" into "BackslashOperator"? > > For what it's wort

[sage-devel] The EMS/ECMI Lanczos Prize for Mathematical Software

2023-09-15 Thread William Stein
a project.But honestly I don't think anybody really knows what the prize will be until the committee sees actual self nominations, and discusses them at length -- it's the first year after all. Anyway, check it out if you're interested, and also forward this to anybody else who migh

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Ask about the SageMath codebase using ChatGPT

2023-07-01 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Jul 1, 2023 at 2:56 AM Nils Bruin wrote: > > On Friday, 30 June 2023 at 20:41:51 UTC+2 William Stein wrote: > > The point is that instead of using GPT's vague memory of what it might > have seen, this instead uses the actual Sage source code, and mainly > uses

[sage-devel] Ask about the SageMath codebase using ChatGPT

2023-06-30 Thread &#x27;William Stein' via sage-devel
-- Forwarded message - From: Naren Manoharan Date: Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 10:53 AM Subject: Thank you for signing up and Welcome Wolfia! To: Hey William, Thanks for signing up and requesting us to index - https://github.com/sagemath/sage This is now available here - https://wolfi

Re: [sage-devel] Question about reading Sage documentation

2023-06-29 Thread William Stein
ion of your docs is as easy as having a separate branch or tag in your version control system." -- William On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 3:33 PM Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 10:46 PM Marc Culler wrote: > > > > During our recent release of SnapPy we ran acr

Re: [sage-devel] Voting: Block-scoped optional tag and the keyword

2023-06-28 Thread William Stein
email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/e3471d65-0652-4173-8eab-f5b45888c4d9n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/e3471d65-0652-4173-8eab-f5b45888c4d9n%40googlegroups

Re: [sage-devel] Modularization project: I. The goals

2023-06-23 Thread William Stein
ve benefits related to other problems such as "Sage is a lot of work to maintain". William -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving e

Re: [sage-devel] Modularization project: I. The goals

2023-06-22 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 2:15 PM Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On Thu, 2023-06-22 at 13:56 -0700, William Stein wrote: > > > > (5) provide a WebAssembly option > > > > WebAssembly is typically about half the speed as native code (at best), > but > > it is high

Re: [sage-devel] Modularization project: I. The goals

2023-06-22 Thread William Stein
supports are listed here: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer-python#supported-platforms Incidentally, building Pari to WebAssembly is officially supported and regularly tested by Bill Allombert. Here's his demo: https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/gpexpwasm.html -- William > > -- &

Re: [sage-devel] Modularization project: I. The goals

2023-06-15 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 6:49 PM 'Travis Scrimshaw' via sage-devel wrote: > > Hi William, >That is interesting. Although my take on that is following Matthias's > proposal, they will just use one (or more) part of Sage as a Python library. > So if they switch

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Modularation doctests

2023-06-15 Thread William Stein
emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/80a6ba58-17e8-4a99-950a-3bfb5e0b24fen%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/80a6ba58-17e8-4a

Re: [sage-devel] Modularization project: I. The goals

2023-06-15 Thread William Stein
I did explain how it is possible to use normal Python and import sage via "from sage.all import ...". However, properly supporting using Sage from Python like any other Python citizen would be even better, and that's something that would result from the project Matthias is spearhead

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Why matrix powers are slower over Integers(p) than in ZZ?

2023-06-14 Thread William Stein
;re implementing a multi-modular algorithm. I don't know what your application is though. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- 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] Modularization project: I. The goals

2023-06-11 Thread William Stein
ponents (e.g., wheels, carburetor, etc.), and it's good engineering to put a lot of effort into properly building those components. I'm absolutely blown away and thrilled Sage is still around after almost 20 years, and that you guys are actually doing that sort of work! -- William (h

Re: [sage-devel] Develop Sage inside GitHub Codespaces and/or other "cloud" options?

2023-06-03 Thread William Stein
475ea1-a782-4c54-a3dc-a8d1dacc8b53n%40googlegroups.com. >> >> > -- > 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+u

Re: [sage-devel] Re: ping - please cast you vote: VOTE: Follow NEP 29: Recommended Python version

2023-05-30 Thread William Stein
9d557-fd7d-4c6a-8644-3ee96966b8fan%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/d459d557-fd7d-4c6a-8644-3ee96966b8fan%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- -- William Stein -- You received this message because you are subscribed t

Re: [sage-devel] ping - please cast you vote: VOTE: Follow NEP 29: Recommended Python version

2023-05-30 Thread William Stein
thread where no discussion about the vote is allowed (only a vote), etc. William > > Once again, I think we should close ranks with the rest of scientific python > people and start following NEP 29. > We have much more urgent stuff to work on - buggy Pynac, buggy Singular > inte

Re: [sage-devel] Re: VOTE: Follow NEP 29: Recommended Python version

2023-05-26 Thread William Stein
as? It's a debate. It's the sort of heated discussion about NEP 29 that I wish I could read, but (maybe) I can't because some "powers that be" just decided on NEP 29 in private (which is their right of course as volunteers and open source maintainers). -- William --

Re: [sage-devel] Re: VOTE: Follow NEP 29: Recommended Python version

2023-05-26 Thread William Stein
istribution gets handled by some third party distribution such as conda (etc.). That's been discussed with great optimism recently on this list. I hope soon Sage isn't a distribution, but right now it still is. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are s

Re: [sage-devel] Re: VOTE: Follow NEP 29: Recommended Python version

2023-05-26 Thread William Stein
9 may have helped them keep their sanity. But if that's the case, it's decided in secret as far as I can tell. -- William On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 6:34 AM Matthias Koeppe wrote: > > Thanks, Tobias, for opening this vote thread. Here on sage-devel, this is a > much better se

[sage-devel] pathname escaping in animate().gif

2023-05-07 Thread William Orrick
I have encountered the problem that when I try running bdFrames.gif(delay=5,savefile='myFilename',use_ffmpeg=True) the following error message is produced: CalledProcessError: Command 'cd "/var/folders/v8/ksjcxlh9775658j_hrwqvlj8gq/T/tmpzm1odw2y/dir_ivudixzd/"; ffmpeg -nostdin -y -f image2

Re: [sage-devel] Re: What was/is/will be the purpose of maintaining the Sage distribution?

2023-04-27 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 1:21 PM Matthias Koeppe wrote: > > On Thursday, April 27, 2023 at 5:49:50 AM UTC-7 William Stein wrote: > > To what extent does or could Conda with a little more work solve most > of these problems? [...] > I also think this section > https://doc

Re: [sage-devel] Re: What was/is/will be the purpose of maintaining the Sage distribution?

2023-04-27 Thread William Stein
Isuru, Thanks for answering all my questions. I just want to reiterate that I'm thrilled with what you are doing and greatly appreciate it! William On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 10:07 AM Isuru Fernando wrote: > > > it fails with "└─ sage is uninstallable because there are no

Re: [sage-devel] Re: What was/is/will be the purpose of maintaining the Sage distribution?

2023-04-27 Thread William Stein
the same Ubuntu system, all at once, and have them not get screwed up when we do normal system updates. Doing major Ubuntu version updates (e.g., 20.04 --> 22.04) doesn't have to be supported. My impression is that conda potentially solves this problem at least as well as sage-the-dis

Re: [sage-devel] Re: [sage-release] Sage 10.0.rc0 released

2023-04-26 Thread William Stein
eiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/3c05b1b8-f8e3-4fb1-b39e-f296e5efd40bn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/3c05b1b8-f

Re: [sage-devel] Re: [sage-release] Sage 10.0.rc0 released

2023-04-26 Thread William Stein
, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAChs6_mzNg%3D5EyjBjOXMSvTKEECWW7QD%2BzyQCkZ1Na45kk5GSw%40mail.gmail.com. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message be

Re: [sage-devel] Re: [sage-release] Sage 10.0.rc0 released

2023-04-26 Thread William Stein
es on this list. -- William On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 12:20 PM Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 8:18 PM Matthias Koeppe > wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 12:14:26 PM UTC-7 Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > > This discussion happened

Re: [sage-devel] Re: [sage-release] Sage 10.0.rc0 released

2023-04-26 Thread William Stein
, and for that I added several of the preparser features in the "from future import ..." style of Python. https://github.com/sagemathinc/cowasm/blob/main/python/pylang/README.md#math-extensions-like-the-sage-preparser -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message becaus

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Why SR('expression') fail on some but not others?

2023-04-26 Thread William Stein
that mapping, but is ugly. Then lament no json... William -- 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

Re: Re: [sage-devel] ChatGPT is an expert in SageMath too

2023-04-21 Thread William Stein
n creating derived works. If the output of an LLM is a derived work (and not just some fair use of that input), then there is legally nothing particularly special about GPL in the context of training LLM's. That I think successfully undercuts my point in starting this thread. -- William On Fri, Ap

Re: [sage-devel] ChatGPT is an expert in SageMath too

2023-04-20 Thread William Stein
al software, our academic community's choice of license could explain why LLM's output code that's much more like Sympy (say) than SageMath's, and perhaps why LLM's are not as good at using Sage. William P.S.In case anybody is curious, Sage was originally GPL'd beca

Re: [sage-devel] RealField isn't doing it right

2023-04-18 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 7:35 PM aw wrote: > [...] You and your people have a *very strong* tendency to nitpick details > instead of staying focused on the big picture. You're right, respecting details is indeed a very strong characteristic of professional mathematicians. -- Wi

Re: [sage-devel] RealField isn't doing it right

2023-04-18 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 5:15 PM aw wrote: > In high-precision environments like RealField(1000), Sage should *definitely* > use the math semantics, because physics people, or engineers, or any other > applied type folks, have zero use for 1000 bits of precision in anything that > they do. Sear

Re: [sage-devel] RealField isn't doing it right

2023-04-17 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 9:11 PM Nils Bruin wrote: > > It's certainly reasonable to not call a floating point field "RealField". > C and python don't even do that: they call such elements floats. I'm less > sure whether such a RealFloats field should be any less prominent than it > is now. Plus th

Re: [sage-devel] modular form basis

2023-04-17 Thread William Stein
s 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.goog

Re: [sage-devel] RealField isn't doing it right

2023-04-15 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 4:25 PM Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On Sat, 2023-04-15 at 18:20 -0400, David Roe wrote: > > I agree with William that you should refrain from insulting the Sage > > developers, especially when the underlying problem comes from your > > misunder

Re: [sage-devel] RealField isn't doing it right

2023-04-15 Thread William Stein
essionals. But giving users junk answers makes Sage look bush-league. > > The MPFR devs would never allow their library to give a junk answer. > > Wolfram would never allow Mathematica or Alpha to give a junk answer. > > Why the heck are the Sage devs allowing Sage to give junk a

[sage-devel] Sage developer's guide

2023-04-04 Thread &#x27;William Stein' via sage-devel
om Trac to GitHub for the preliminary version of the workflow." It seems like that banne could be updated a bit, now that it is April. I do realize that there's still a lot being hashed out about the exact workflow... William [1] https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/index.html -- B

Re: [sage-devel] Re: where is rpy2

2023-03-25 Thread William Stein
stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/548532e6-4cba-4d38-bd1e-093b08f2429an%40googlegroups.com. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received t

Re: [sage-devel] Re: where is rpy2

2023-03-25 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 12:13 PM Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > > On Sat, 25 Mar 2023, 18:57 Matthias Koeppe, wrote: >> >> On Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 9:29:32 AM UTC-7 William Stein wrote: >> >> It seems to me that these days there are three >&g

Re: [sage-devel] Re: where is rpy2

2023-03-25 Thread William Stein
ckage. Probably rpy2 should be completely removed from sage, and people should pip install it instead. However, instructions to do that could be provided if anybody touches the "r." interface... -- William -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you ar

[sage-devel] where is rpy2

2023-03-25 Thread William Stein
t been done? Alternatively, we have to make it so that building Sage depends on R being installed, or we have to change the definition of "standard" package. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel&

Re: [sage-devel] Github Discussions

2023-02-08 Thread William Stein
ng at the sympy Discussions at https://github.com/sympy/sympy/discussions I had a positive impression, since there's a lot of activity, with questions clearly marked "answered", etc. So thanks for sharing how painful that can be from the dev side. -- William On Wed, Feb 8, 20

[sage-devel] Github Discussions

2023-02-08 Thread William Stein
discussions by other projects: - Next js (a react framework) uses it very heavily -- https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions - CoCalc -- we use it a bit: https://github.com/sagemathinc/cocalc/discussions Thoughts? William -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this mes

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Democratic issue: rushing decisions

2022-10-06 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 8:45 AM John H Palmieri wrote: > Hi William, > There is nothing in our department's bylaws to provide for a delay of voting, > but we have a chair and we have an executive committee, and the hope is that > they care not only about the particular issue

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Democratic issue: rushing decisions

2022-10-05 Thread William Stein
ion until October 1, and several > people (William and Dima) have made arguments for making a decision more > quickly." I find this rather dismissive of the views of those who requested a > more deliberate process. It would be good to have a procedure for determining > timing for vot

Re: [sage-devel] Democratic issue: rushing decisions

2022-10-05 Thread William Stein
> several developers asked for delays The only governance mechanism we have for decision making in the Sage project currently is a vote of the entire dev community. Thus there is no way to consider your request to delay voting aside from having even more voting. -- William On Wed, Oc

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Invitation: Weekly 30-minute Sage developer calls on Jitsi

2022-10-03 Thread William Stein
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Re: [sage-devel] DISCUSS: move Sage development to Github

2022-09-24 Thread William Stein
nitely, and would provide a read-only copy of all the pages on trac.We could also automatically edit each static page to have a clear banner stating that it is an archive, and include a link to the corresponding GitHub issue. I'm not volunteering to do that. I'm just saying it is t

Re: [sage-devel] Re: is it intentional that prod does not stop when it hits 0?

2022-09-22 Thread William Stein
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Re: [sage-devel] VOTE: move Sage development to Github

2022-09-21 Thread William Stein
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Re: [sage-devel] Re: Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-20 Thread William Stein
ort Sage, but I don't think he's contributed code to the library -- at least I didn't find him in Dima's list from GitHub. William On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 11:00 AM Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 5:42 PM David Roe wrote: > > > > When I did

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-20 Thread William Stein
troversial topic (but > > please let's not revisit past controversies): So I'll withdraw my 2/3 > > proposal, but suggest we do keep sage-devel as the criterion. > > https://groups.google.com/g/sage-devel/c/dR3_eyIUyac/m/LyALpiLcHuQJ > > Quoting from William

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-19 Thread William Stein
or example, Harald Schilly has been the webmaster of Sage since 2007 and likely cares about this switch since it can impact him, but I don't think he reads sage-devel. -- William On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 2:10 PM David Roe wrote: > > Given that we've had far more interest in Github th

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-19 Thread William Stein
hon's. For comparison, as of today there are 60,730 Python issues and 34,557 sagetrac issues, so the size of the relevant data sets is comparable. So to anybody who are working on this herculean effort, my hat is off to you. William On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 12:51 AM Marc Mezzaro

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-18 Thread William Stein
a lot of natural frequent questions (involving users, issue comments, labels, etc.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOXuOg9tQI In my experience, the search built into GitHub is at least 10x (or maybe 100x?) faster than our trac search, e.g., try searching https://trac.sagemath.org/search versus https:

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-16 Thread William Stein
appreciative that the sage devs such as Dima are taking the very real problems of Sage's dev infrastructure so very seriously right now. William -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. T

Re: [sage-devel] Re: On changing Bernoulli(1) to +½

2022-09-15 Thread William Stein
vel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/155dc41c-6d30-4792-923f-2ff85d831de7n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/155dc41c-6d30-4792-923f-2ff85d831de7n%40googlegroups.com?utm_m

Re: [sage-devel] sage zoom meeting reminder

2022-09-15 Thread William Stein
We took quick notes from the discussion during the short meeting here - https://cocalc.com/wstein/sagedev/2022-09-15 On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 8:19 AM William Stein wrote: > > I've also created an agenda file here: > > https://cocalc.com/wstein/sagedev/2022-09-15 > >

Re: [sage-devel] sage zoom meeting reminder

2022-09-15 Thread William Stein
please create a meeting and > post the details here? > > Matthias > > On Thursday, September 15, 2022 at 8:16:42 AM UTC-7 Dima Pasechnik wrote: >> >> On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 3:54 PM William Stein wrote: >> > >> > Reminder -- that 30 minute Sage zoom mee

Re: [sage-devel] sage zoom meeting reminder

2022-09-15 Thread William Stein
Matthias just wrote that he is having technical troubles with zoom. Here's where we will have the meeting instead: https://meet.jit.si/d8a744b413e339d95fba907b81fb249609520161 On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 8:16 AM Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 3:54 PM William S

[sage-devel] sage zoom meeting reminder

2022-09-15 Thread William Stein
Reminder -- that 30 minute Sage zoom meeting thing that Matthias organized is happening in a few minutes from right now at https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/92371662861?pwd=TDZKR0lKb2xzTGhiM0l3cnFmaGRadz09 (8:15 pacific time to be exact.) -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-15 Thread William Stein
racle (I painfully remember Oracle killing Sun Microsofts literally months after SageMath started getting some *major* marketing and vendor support from Sun.) -- William [1] Related to this, the JupyterLab project this week flipped a switch to *require* all developers with commit access to use

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-13 Thread William Stein
s involve the GitHub API, which I've used and is actually really good. -- William -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails f

Re: [sage-devel] Re: On changing Bernoulli(1) to +½

2022-09-12 Thread William Stein
ry aberration deeply embedded. Yet Luschny convinced me that we have all been wrong, and that it's high time to change back to the correct definition before the situation gets even worse. Therefore I changed the definition of $B_1$ in all printings of The Art of Computer Programming..."

Re: [sage-devel] On changing Bernoulli(1) to +½

2022-09-10 Thread William Stein
on and > it indeed breaks some tests in sage/modular/modform: I created all of the files listed below. My guess is that code for computing q-expansions of Eisenstein series assume B(1) is what it is, and one would just need to change that code by changing a sign somewhere. William >

Re: [sage-devel] On changing Bernoulli(1) to +½

2022-09-10 Thread William Stein
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Re: [sage-devel] Fwd: request for help: macOS PARI binaries

2022-09-09 Thread William Stein
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Re: [sagemath-admins] Fwd: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-09 Thread William Stein
example, I don't contribute to Sage anymore because the barrier to entry via trac is too high. I contributed (and had accepted) a little pull request yesterday to numpy **because** the barrier was so low. -- William On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 7:40 AM Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > > O

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Trac no longer seems to push to sagetrac-mirror

2022-09-02 Thread William Stein
email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/9e30240e-5bfc-4e83-a841-54041165f6d7n%40googlegroups.com. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed

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