On Wednesday, June 14, 2023 at 8:01:29 AM UTC-7 Tobias Diez wrote: On Wednesday, 14 June 2023 at 05:37:15 UTC+8 Matthias Koeppe wrote:
- Some # optional annotations reduce the barrier for contributors, by clearly signaling to developers "it's OK and definitely not your fault if you don't understand this doctest". [...] As a (new) user, reading "# optional - sage.symbolic" makes me more think "wtf. what is this? how do I install this sage.symbolic thing so that I can run use this example?!" than "oh, yes, this test depends on another part of sage, that I have not yet encountered, so I don't need to try to understand this example". This is a documentation / user education issue, which is addressed by writing documentation and educating the educators first. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/3000da05-8ded-48f4-b346-58220a87fdf6n%40googlegroups.com.
