Thanks, David, for opening this (overdue) discussion with your thoughtful
post.
I would like to put it in a larger context. I'm sure most here would agree
that we want our project to be trustworthy for current and future users, to
be welcoming to new users and developers, and to maintain a
Hi all,
I'm writing about an issue that I think is causing substantial harm to the
Sage community: the only current mechanism we have for resolving a
disagreement is to call a vote on this email list. There are certainly
times where this is an appropriate response, and I think it's still
The master branch has bugs in it and don't produce "correct" oriented
matroids. These have been fixed in the current development branch, but the
development branch needs documentation to be updated and also to be double
checked to ensure there are no bugs/errors. (There's also additional things
