Here's a friendly overview on 9 of the "disputed" PRs, to help potential volunteer editors find PRs that match their interests -- in case the community decides that this model of appointing editors is the way to go.
None of them has anything to do with "development philosophy", or with macOS; that's a false narrative. *A. Positively reviewed, but held back by demands by 1 participant:* https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/36561 "pkgs/sage-conf: Move metadata from setup.cfg to pyproject.toml" - Background reading: https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/writing-pyproject-toml/ - "Needs review" set on Oct 28, 2023. - Positively reviewed by 1 reviewer on Nov 2, 2023. - Another participant demands that it must be changed so that when merged into his open PR, that PR will work without change. https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/36676 "Restructure sage.*.all for modularization, replace relative by absolute imports" - Background reading: https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/packaging_sage_library.html#testing-distribution-packages - "Needs review" set on Nov 9, 2023. - Positively reviewed by 1 reviewer on Nov 15, 2023. - Another participant demands that it cannot be merged until the already documented design decision is reopened for a discussion. https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/36726 "CI Linux: Replace use of pkill" - Background reading: https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/portability_testing.html - "Needs review" set on Nov 15, 2023. - Positively reviewed by 3 reviewers, Nov 16 / Nov 23 / Dec 23, 2023 - *TW:* A senior developer uses frequent public displays of disrespect, makes false accusations, and makes insinuations about the intents of the PR author. *B. Stalled in "needs review" as author declines to address or respond to reviewer's comments* https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/36503 "Add config for ruff" https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/36489 "Use meson instead of configure for conda install" - PR author ends discussion with public display of disrespect. https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/36524 "Compile everything with meson" *C. PR declares original author's work as unimportant/illegitimate and removes/obstructs it* https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/36941 "Reduce number of systems test with minimal config" https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/36725 "Run ci-macos jobs in series" https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/36923 Revert "gh-36678: CI conda: Ignore baseline test failures " *D. *There are also Issues (not just PRs) marked as "disputed"; the search https://github.com/sagemath/sage/issues?q=sort%3Aupdated-desc+label%3Adisputed+ gives a broader picture of the problem of toxicity in our community. On Wednesday, January 10, 2024 at 6:50:10 AM UTC-8 William Stein wrote: > Dear Sage Developers, > > 1. There are over 20 pull requests labeled as "disputed" [1]. To > resolve these pull requests, we will be appointing an editor with no > direct involvement in the pull request to make a judgement call on > that particular pull request. We will then fully support the > decision of this editor. If you have the time to be the (possibly > anonymous) editor for a disputed pull request, please email us > (wst...@gmail.com, vbrau...@gmail.com) and we'll add your name to > our list. > > 2. There are numerous recent reports of violations of the code of > conduct to the sage-abuse mailing list. The code of conduct should > not be used as a tool in case you don't agree with somebody else. For > now, the main act of censure that the sage-abuse committee will be > taking going forward will be to delete comments (on github and mailing > lists) that violate the code of conduct. > > We do not have much time to devote to Sage development. However, we > both very much want things to move forward in a friendly and > encouraging way, and we would greatly appreciate it if the community > of Sage developers will support the above plan to move things forward > and ensure a positive 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 "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/35020662-a8c5-41c8-87be-cfbbb49e198cn%40googlegroups.com.
