On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 8:11 AM, Erik Bray <erik.m.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 8:03 AM jplab <jeanphilippela...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> It is great to have a recent snapshot of the status of Sage and a wishlist! >> >> This summer marks the 10th year when my brother showed me Sage for >> the first time at the beginning of my master (So happy I did not need to >> use Maple or Matematica any more...). It is awesome to see it so >> lively and to be able to participate in improving it! >> >> On the number of contribution graph, it seems that the number increased >> since the move to git in around 2014? Is that accurate? >> >> About moving trac to github, I have been aware of gitlab, an "open-core" >> competitor of gitlab. My institution uses it instead of github as its >> platform >> for internal collaborations. As I am not an expert in this respect, but I >> find >> it interesting to consider, as you mention that your computer was 100% >> open source apart from Magma. Here's a letter from the CEO of gitlab, >> from 2 years ago last week: >> >> https://about.gitlab.com/2016/07/20/gitlab-is-open-core-github-is-closed-source/ >> >> which ends by: >> >> "In conclusion (TLDR), GitLab has an open core business model and ships >> both open and closed source software. GitHub hosts most open source >> projects but ships closed source software." >> >> For what it's worth, I thought I would mention it here... > > We've been keeping quiet about it because we want things to be working > before we start a big discussion / flame war about it but Julian Rüth > and I have already been making some inroads towards enhancing Sage > development on GitLab (as opposed to GitHub),
+1 from me for GitLab; it has most of the same important advantages over trac for us. > All this is to say, this is one bullet point in William's slides that > is being worked on. I believe some others are being worked on too, as > able, but progress is slow. I agree with all the main bullet points > (other than the one minor one I pointed out ;) Thanks so much for working on this! -- William (http://wstein.org) -- 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.
