On 1 April 2010 07:56, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:50 PM, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> > wrote:
>> If developers do not have access to a platform, and/or they do not >> have the time to test Sage on that platform, then remove offical >> support for the platform. Given the following two possibilites, I know >> what one I'd chose. >> >> 1) Have official support for a large number of Linux distributions, >> even though there are not the resources to test on them. > > There *are* hardware resources. The only problem is the people effort > to configure them and organize them. Resources must consist of hardware, software and time. > Sage didn't get to where it is now and won't get to where it needs to > go by such an attitude of not supporting platforms. If anything, we > need to solidly support far more platforms than we currently support. >> I personally think number 2 is better than number 1. Do you agree? If >> so, the solution is obvious. > > I definitely do not agree. I find it astonishing you feel it is more important to have offical support for a larger number of platforms than there are the resources to test Sage on. > The solution is to get our act together > and get the infrastructure organized so that we can properly test on > *all* supported platforms. Either help or... help. > > William IMHO, platforms should never be offically supported until the resources are in place to test on those platforms before a Sage release is made. Once the resources are in place, then increase the number of officially supported platforms. But only when the resources are in place. Dave -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
