On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:35 PM, David Roe<r...@math.harvard.edu> wrote:
> So, I can certainly do that by Wednesday.  I think much of the difficulty
> will be getting the code up to 100% doctest coverage.  It's not really
> feasible for Nicolas to write all those doctests.  I'm happy to contribute
> doctests for my section; do we need to get a secondary reviewer in that
> case?

Yes, we should.  The whole point is that code/documentation that goes
into Sage gets read by somebody other than the author of said
code/documentation.  I think it is reasonable that Nicolas could sign
off on your doctests though.

William

>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Nicolas M. Thiery
> <nicolas.thi...@u-psud.fr> wrote:
>>
>>        Dear Tom, dear category reviewers,
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 02:30:23PM -0700, Nicolas Thiéry wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:00:19PM -0700, Tom Boothby wrote:
>> > > I'm the release manager for sage-4.0.3.
>> > > Python to 2.6, and if I succeed, I'll rename the release to sage-4.1.
>> > > In about an hour, I'm going to send out review requests.
>> >
>> > Tom: thanks very much for your time on this!
>> >
>> > To all (potential) category code reviewers: I would really want to see
>> > the category code end up in 4.1. FPSAC, the main algebraic
>> > combinatorics conference, is less than one month from now, and the
>> > sage-combinat dev have invested a lot of work this year to get Sage up
>> > to speed at this point. We have 1/2 Mb worth of combinatorics patches
>> > (root systems, crystals, symmetric functions, ...) waiting for the
>> > category code to get in. For those, we will be able to manage the
>> > review process among us, but we will need some time.
>>
>> Does the following looks sensible to all of you:
>>
>>  - By, say, Wednesday, each category reviewer makes sure to glance
>>   through his patch, and report whether he sees any definitive show
>>   stopper: that is something that absolutely have to be fixed before
>>   integrating the code into Sage, and that is not easy to fix.  He
>>   also report an estimate of the date by which he can complete the
>>   full review.
>>
>>  - Accordingly, it's decided whether the category code is the official
>>   goal (with python 2.6) for Sage 4.1. And whether there should be an
>>   intermediate 4.0.3.
>>
>>  - If yes (which I very much hope!), we all work hard to tidy up the
>>   easy things to fix.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>                                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

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