On 10 Nov 2014 23:08, "Ursula Whitcher" <whitc...@uwec.edu> wrote: > > On 11/5/2014 8:24 AM, Willia . s J. _ .m Stein wrote: > >> * By "we write up" above, I mean you write up something very, very >> rough, post it here, and get feedback. > > > Done! > > http://people.uwec.edu/whitchua/notes/sagebugprocess.pdf > > I stuck with Ticket 14032 as my example; I think the tradeoff of interesting algorithm vs. boring bug is OK for a general math audience.
If I am honest, I am not that convinced it is a good follow up comment, but ignoring that, if this was to be the basis of an article, I can think of some improvements. 1) Add a time line. How long it took from the reporting of the bug, to the bug fixed, peer reviewed, then to release of a new alpha/beta/release candidate and finally to the release of a stable version with the bug fixed. I suspect it was faster than the year or so the bug has remained in Mathematica. 2) Take out the early reference to Sage getting the determinate correct that Mathematica gets right. Apart from boasting rights, I am not convinced it adds anything useful. 3) The initial priority is stated to be major, but the priority can be changed by others, and most obviously by the release manager. So not every "blocker" bug gets fixed by the next release of Sage. 4) An obvious problem with comparing two black boxes, which was the proposal of the trio of mathematicians, is that the black boxes will probably share some common code. I am pretty sure Mathematica uses ATLAS, since there was (is still?) a library libatlas.so. There are a lot of LPGL libraries, that can be used by closed source software. 5) There are no conclusions. I would have thought that there should be. Dave -- 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 post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
