Purkayashta: this would only address (in good or bad) a tiny part of the development issues, those that have to do with version control. Paul
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 2:01 PM, P Purkayastha <ppu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/23/2012 08:37 PM, Andrew Mathas wrote: > >> Does anyone have any /concrete suggestions/ for how we could improve the >> >> "development model"? There is definitely room for improvement but short >> of paying someone I don't have any good suggestions. The problem is that >> what I want implemented is often different to what everyone else wants, >> but thankfully there is some overlap and so some give and take. Ideas >> anyone? >> >> Andrew >> > > There is already a move towards a git-based development model. I hope it > will allow people to fork and experiment in their own branches quickly > instead of the current method of using queues, trac patches, or "sage > -clone", etc, which I find is a painful process. > > I would say the git model might work better. For instance look at the > notebook. It is very easy to work with the development branch of any > person's fork of the notebook. At present, you can even try out out the new > UI by simply switching the notebook branch to samuela's fork. The switch > takes about a second once you have the branch in your git. You can quickly > also change back to the original notebook and resume your usual work with > that as soon as you are done experimenting. The only hurdle that I see > right now is the about 5-6 git commands one needs to know before one can > start working with the development branch(es) of the notebook. Part of the > next sage-git workshop is to create tools to make this setup (and > contributing back) easy. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-combinat-devel" group. > To post to this group, send email to sage-combinat-devel@** > googlegroups.com <sage-combinat-devel@googlegroups.com>. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-combinat-devel+** > unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<sage-combinat-devel%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/sage-combinat-devel?hl=**en<http://groups.google.com/group/sage-combinat-devel?hl=en> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-combinat-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-combinat-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-combinat-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-combinat-devel?hl=en.
