William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Martin > Albrecht<m...@informatik.uni-bremen.de> wrote: >> On Tuesday 25 August 2009, William Stein wrote: >>> "Please send me a list of items you would like us to fund. What I >>> need is just a sentence or two (at most a >>> paragraph) describing the work ... and a ballpark estimate of the cost." >> * polynomial system solving with noise; cost: a three year postdoc ;) >> >> ... are you really talking about *anything* or does it have to meet the usual >> funding standards of providing scientific advances? It seems we could use >> some >> help in the software engineering department (exposing libraries better etc.) > > Please feel free to suggest any and all ideas. There are different > potential funding sources -- some most care about basic software > engineering, some about scientific research, and some about > undergraduate education applications.
Well, in the spirit of "any and all", realistic or not: I (personally) feel we're at a point where Cython could probably benefit from a release manager/bugfixer -- someone who was paid a little to stabilize it, make it fully tested, decrease compilation time etc. Both the time between releases and the number of unfixed bugs are growing. Though I guess Cython as it is might be working well for Sage (except perhaps compilation times). The mailing list and ideas department is as active as ever, but there's really too little time between us to really drive development forward (or at least I feel there's potential for a lot more). A week at SciPy 09 really made me feel the weaknesses in some parts of Cython (although most of the feedback was very positive). -- Dag Sverre --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
