Re: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-09 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Artem Barger wrote: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Rob Tompkins wrote: > >> So based upon all of the conversation here, I’ve concluded that the best >> path forward is to attempt to grow the community inside commons. That’s why >> I’m sticking with attempts to m

Re: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-09 Thread Artem Barger
On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Rob Tompkins wrote: > So based upon all of the conversation here, I’ve concluded that the best > path forward is to attempt to grow the community inside commons. That’s why > I’m sticking with attempts to make contributions elsewhere in commons to > gain the requis

Re: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-05 Thread Rob Tompkins
My overall impression about the problem is that we have a commons component that requires a considerable of non-java domain specific knowledge to make contributions. Thus, our general java expertise is not necessarily sufficient to vet contributions. From what I can tell, commons-math might be t

Re: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-04 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 13:09:21 -0700, Ralph Goers wrote: Are you waiting on an answer before reviewing and/or merging his pull requests? We are all unlucky that CM developers left. My post with subject "Commons Math (r)evolution" (referred to below) dates from June 5 (in part inspired by Artem's

Re: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-04 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 3/08/2016 à 09:20, Jörg Schaible a écrit : > At least for RNG you had three binding votes. Why not simply start with it > and if the overall experience is positive for the community regarding the > new component, people might reconsider their decision for the other proposed > components (or

Re: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-04 Thread Ralph Goers
Are you waiting on an answer before reviewing and/or merging his pull requests? Ralph > On Aug 4, 2016, at 10:49 AM, Gilles wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 10:13:26 -0400, Artem Barger wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Ralph Goers >> wrote: >> >>> > All I'm saying this is one of the pro

Re: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-04 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 10:13:26 -0400, Artem Barger wrote: On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: > All I'm saying this is one of the problems within CM, ​which IMO only a > symptom for more acute problem of missing community. Also as you can see in > ML archive I've tried several t

Re: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-04 Thread Artem Barger
On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: > > All I'm saying this is one of the problems within CM, ​which IMO only a > > symptom for more acute problem of missing community. Also as you can see > in > > ML archive I've tried several times to rise discussion around work I'm > > doing and

Re: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-04 Thread Ralph Goers
> On Aug 4, 2016, at 6:39 AM, Artem Barger wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Ralph Goers > wrote: > >> So you are saying that the real problem is that no one involved with >> Commons Math is acting on the work you are doing. In other projects PRs >> don’t always get acted upon immedia

Re: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-04 Thread Artem Barger
On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: > So you are saying that the real problem is that no one involved with > Commons Math is acting on the work you are doing. In other projects PRs > don’t always get acted upon immediately, but 3 months is a bit long. > Pinging on the list to get s

Re: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-04 Thread Ralph Goers
> On Aug 3, 2016, at 3:35 PM, Artem Barger wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Ralph Goers > wrote: > >>> 1. My understanding is that any ASF committer has commit rights to >> Commons. That is one case for a low barrier to entry. Of course, any >> committer will want to learn the way-o

Re: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-03 Thread Artem Barger
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > > 1. My understanding is that any ASF committer has commit rights to > Commons. That is one case for a low barrier to entry. Of course, any > committer will want to learn the way-of-working at Commons and any > interesting subprojects, but com

Re: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-03 Thread Artem Barger
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: > > If that were true, you could have said that the newcomers who > > want to work on a revised CM are welcome to do so, and the > > output of that work would normally be adopted by Commons > > (unless it's proven crappy of course). > > OK. Newc

Re: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-03 Thread Dave Fisher
Gilles, A suggestion from the peanut gallery. Look into the offered contributions and grow the community should these prove merit. Avoiding these contributions assures that you are the one who actually wants CM to be dormant.. If POI had not done this over the years the project would be dormant

RE: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-03 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Ralph Goers [mailto:ralph.go...@dslextreme.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2016 11:30 > To: Commons Developers List ; > dennis.hamil...@acm.org > Subject: Re: [MATH]: Current state of project? > > > > On Aug 3, 2016,

Re: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-03 Thread Ralph Goers
> On Aug 3, 2016, at 9:55 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton > wrote: > > Side questions, below > >> -Original Message- >> From: Ralph Goers [mailto:ralph.go...@dslextreme.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2016 08:41 >> To: Commons Developers List &

RE: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-03 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Side questions, below > -Original Message- > From: Ralph Goers [mailto:ralph.go...@dslextreme.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2016 08:41 > To: Commons Developers List > Subject: Re: [MATH]: Current state of project? [ ... ] > OK. Newcomers are free to work on

Re: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-03 Thread Ralph Goers
> On Aug 3, 2016, at 8:16 AM, Gilles wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 07:09:50 -0700, Ralph Goers wrote: >>> On Aug 3, 2016, at 3:46 AM, Gilles wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 23:59:23 -0700, Ralph Goers wrote: > On Aug 2, 2016, at 4:00 PM, Gilles wrote: > > > Most PMC member

Re: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-03 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 07:09:50 -0700, Ralph Goers wrote: On Aug 3, 2016, at 3:46 AM, Gilles wrote: On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 23:59:23 -0700, Ralph Goers wrote: On Aug 2, 2016, at 4:00 PM, Gilles wrote: Most PMC members seem to wish that CM becomes dormant. I totally agree with you that it would be

Re: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-03 Thread Ralph Goers
> On Aug 3, 2016, at 3:46 AM, Gilles wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 23:59:23 -0700, Ralph Goers wrote: >>> On Aug 2, 2016, at 4:00 PM, Gilles wrote: >>> >>> >>> Most PMC members seem to wish that CM becomes dormant. >>> I totally agree with you that it would be good to have _that_ >>> clarifie

Re: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-03 Thread Gilles
On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 23:59:23 -0700, Ralph Goers wrote: On Aug 2, 2016, at 4:00 PM, Gilles wrote: Most PMC members seem to wish that CM becomes dormant. I totally agree with you that it would be good to have _that_ clarified. I have no idea how that is your takeaway from all the discussions.

RE: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-03 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Gilles, Gilles wrote: > On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 09:35:43 -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: >> There are a number of dangling [VOTE] threads that seem to devolve >> into inconclusive discussion. Nevertheless, it would be useful for >> the creator of those votes to resolve them with [RESULT][VOTE] >>

Re: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-02 Thread Ralph Goers
> On Aug 2, 2016, at 4:00 PM, Gilles wrote: > > > Most PMC members seem to wish that CM becomes dormant. > I totally agree with you that it would be good to have _that_ > clarified. I have no idea how that is your takeaway from all the discussions. The point I have tried to make is that CM ne

RE: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-02 Thread Gilles
s dormant. I totally agree with you that it would be good to have _that_ clarified. Gilles - Dennis -Original Message- From: Rob Tompkins [mailto:chtom...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2016 08:56 To: Commons Developers List Subject: Re: [MATH]: Current state of project? &

RE: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-02 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
od to have even that clarified. - Dennis > -Original Message- > From: Rob Tompkins [mailto:chtom...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2016 08:56 > To: Commons Developers List > Subject: Re: [MATH]: Current state of project? > > > > > On Aug 1, 201

Re: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-02 Thread Artem Barger
On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Rob Tompkins wrote: > Hey Artem, > > I agree. I've decided to make some contributions in commons more generally > to gain report as to become a committer. Until I can do that, I'm guessing > that it'll just be Gilles accepting pill requests. > > Cheers, > -Rob >

Re: [MATH]: Current state of project?

2016-08-02 Thread Rob Tompkins
> On Aug 1, 2016, at 10:58 PM, Artem Barger wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > It's been a while since there was a lot of hot discussion regarding the > future of the CM project, however I do not think that clear agreement was > reached. The reason I'm wondering is because I'd like to contribute t