On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Nicolas M. Thiery <nicolas.thi...@u-psud.fr> wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 08:50:50AM -0700, William Stein wrote: >> Just for the record, I hate when there is a looming patch over >> months of time whose main impact on Sage is to keep the rest of Sage >> from improving in quality. For example, with Bill Furnish working on >> symoblic for months, the main longterm impact on Sage was that >> nobody improved any of the calculus doctests. > > Definitely. But with developers being mostly volunteers with other > time constraints this can't be completely avoided without preventing > any large scale refactoring. And, as any young software, Sage need > some of those.
You are right. In fact, there are a lot of things that I "hate" but which can't be avoided... -- William > >> Two days ago I sat down to do some work on implementing general >> modules over a PID and decided to add some doctests to modules/*. I >> quickly found a *major* bug in categories/morphisms.py, and you >> better believe I fixed it and kept adding doctests. > > Great. I am glad you did! > > But please: *keep me updated about any such change as soon as > possible* so as to limit conflicts. Every late conflict resolution > just delays even further the final merge. See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5887 > > And for little doc fixes (typos, ...): I would much prefer if they > were just mentioned to me, and I would be glad to integrate them > directly in my patches. > > Best, > Nicolas > -- > Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <nthi...@users.sf.net> > http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/ > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
