Hi Dear fellow sage-developers, The question in the subject is related to the discussion in the Patchbot failures metaticket <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-devel/zuMBYUhdKjA/5hQZ8396DgAJ> thread.
I remember that I read (somewhere a long time ago so my memory might be off) that optional packages where expected to always build and not cause any doctest failures and pas their own testsuite, because optional packages were considered to have the same amount of support as sage itself, the main reason that they are not installed by default is just because not everybody needs them and installing by default makes the sage install even bigger then it already is. However I seem to not be able to find this statement anymore in either one of the places [1][2] where I would expect it. The fact this level of support does not hold for experimental packages is made very clear at [3]. So the main questions: do we consider an optional package not building, not passing it's own testsuite or causing sage to have doctest failures a bug? In the other thread it was mentioned that patchbot failures should be considered blocker status defects (at least if the failures is not due to a buggy patchbot/patchbot on an unsupported platform). Does this also hold for optional packages? [1] http://files.sagemath.org/spkg/optional/ [2] https://wiki.sagemath.org/spkg [3] http://files.sagemath.org/spkg/experimental/ -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
