Re: [sage-devel] Re: VOTE: code of conduct - ends Monday at midnight, PST.

2014-11-24 Thread Robert Bradshaw
[ X ] No -- do not adopt the code of conduct stated below I also share some of the sentiments of Thierry. On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 4:29 PM, john_perry_usm wrote: > [ X ] No -- do not adopt the code of conduct stated below > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[sage-devel] Generating small posets of given size (ticket #14110)

2014-11-24 Thread Jori Mantysalo
Anyone interested in http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/14110 ? Before continuing it would nice to know if the code compiles on Macintosh(es) at all. Also there is a question about how this should be used. -- Jori Mäntysalo

Re: [sage-devel] Bug in abs(I*x).diff(x)

2014-11-24 Thread Ondřej Čertík
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Bill Page wrote: > On 24 November 2014 at 17:43, Ondřej Čertík wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Bill Page >> wrote: >> ... >>> >>> In FriCAS 'abs' is already a kernel function and it implemented the >>> derivative of 'abs' even before my proposed patc

Re: [sage-devel] Bug in abs(I*x).diff(x)

2014-11-24 Thread Bill Page
On 24 November 2014 at 17:43, Ondřej Čertík wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Bill Page wrote: > ... >> >> In FriCAS 'abs' is already a kernel function and it implemented the >> derivative of 'abs' even before my proposed patch but I think the >> current definition is wrong: >> >> (14) ->

Re: [sage-devel] Decision making (refuse to vote)

2014-11-24 Thread Andrew
> Several developpers mentionned making it an "advice" instead of a "code", > so you can see that even the title was an open question. > I voted for adopting the code but I would more comfortable with something like this being adopted as *guidelines* or *recommendations*, especially since the

Re: [sage-devel] Decision making (refuse to vote)

2014-11-24 Thread Nathann Cohen
Hello ! > Volker proposed the text and he probably pinched most of it from > somewhere else (fedora if I remember correctly). He probably participated indeed, but he begins his first post with that: "Some of the Sage developers who are better with words than me went ahead and stole a lot more, m

Re: [sage-devel] Code of Conduct (missing dependencies)

2014-11-24 Thread kcrisman
> > Once more, the rules make a point to enforce politeness but they seem > to avoid things like having the respect to answer a honest question. > > Collated for ease of reply, though there were also implicit questions and examples of what was meant in the email. - what is our commitment to

Re: [sage-devel] Decision making (refuse to vote)

2014-11-24 Thread François Bissey
Hi Thierry, Well that has to be the fiercest reaction so far. Volker proposed the text and he probably pinched most of it from somewhere else (fedora if I remember correctly). I have to take issue with some of your characterization. There was a long discussion thread and I'll admit I haven't re

[sage-devel] Re: Building Sage-6.4 Python module pynac-0.3.2

2014-11-24 Thread kksurendran
That's right. I was building in /usr/local as sudo. I used to always do that. And did upgrade to 6.2 which was running fine. Now, I had a doubt about some strange way why this package alone was behaving so. Because distutils is part of the python distribution. And finding python and missing dis

Re: [sage-devel] VOTE: code of conduct - ends Monday at midnight, PST.

2014-11-24 Thread Thierry
NO ! I can not participate to this, this call for vote is both paternalistic and violent. Since i can not explain why here, please read more details at: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/sage-devel/PjU2YQn3ca4 Ciao, Thierry On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 04:47:33PM -0800, William Ste

[sage-devel] Decision making (refuse to vote)

2014-11-24 Thread Thierry
Hi again, I have serious concerns with the current situation. What is wrong with the current call for vote ? Let me summarize the situation : - An obscure group of self-appointed people wrote a text, they had the possibility to discuss and amend its content, with an unlimited amount of ti

Re: [sage-devel] Code of Conduct (missing dependencies)

2014-11-24 Thread Nathann Cohen
Hello guys, Once more, the rules make a point to enforce politeness but they seem to avoid things like having the respect to answer a honest question. Could we thus have an answer to the ones aked by Therry ? Not ignoring anybody is also part of elementary "friendliness". Nathann On 25 Novembe

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Documentation links

2014-11-24 Thread kcrisman
> > > Ideas are welcome ;-) > > A documentation page with language tabs, that defaults to English? > > Possible, but Harald might want some help then. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop rece

Re: [sage-devel] Code of Conduct (missing dependencies)

2014-11-24 Thread kcrisman
> > > [Edited because this should be a family show] > > I was trying to be sarcastic and make visible a risk for machismo or > androcracy that could follow from establishing some kind of competition > within the community. > > I realize that the way i wrote those two lines somehow strengthen

[sage-devel] Re: VOTE: code of conduct - ends Monday at midnight, PST.

2014-11-24 Thread john_perry_usm
[ X ] No -- do not adopt the code of conduct stated below -- 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

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Documentation links

2014-11-24 Thread David Roe
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Harald Schilly wrote: > > > On Monday, November 24, 2014 10:22:24 AM UTC+1, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >> >> In fact, I think the translations should be mentioned also on >> http://www.sagemath.org/doc/index.html. > > > I agree that external links to dead pages should g

[sage-devel] Re: Documentation links

2014-11-24 Thread Harald Schilly
On Monday, November 24, 2014 10:22:24 AM UTC+1, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > In fact, I think the translations should be mentioned also on > http://www.sagemath.org/doc/index.html. > I agree that external links to dead pages should go away. It piles up. I don't want to judge on relevancy, too.

Re: [sage-devel] Code of Conduct (missing dependencies)

2014-11-24 Thread Thierry
> > [Edited because this should be a family show] I was trying to be sarcastic and make visible a risk for machismo or androcracy that could follow from establishing some kind of competition within the community. I realize that the way i wrote those two lines somehow strengthen such theses. I am

Re: [sage-devel] Bug in abs(I*x).diff(x)

2014-11-24 Thread Ondřej Čertík
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Bill Page wrote: > On 22 November 2014 at 12:34, Ondřej Čertík wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Bill Page >> wrote: >>> ... >>> FriCAS currently does not implement a symbolic 'conjugate' operator. >>> The issue concerns whether adding 'conjugate' is a

Re: [sage-devel] VOTE: code of conduct - ends Monday at midnight, PST.

2014-11-24 Thread Don Winsor
[ X] Yes -- adopt the code of conduct stated below (*) -- Don Winsor On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 7:47 PM, William Stein wrote: > Hello Sage Developers, > > This is a simple majority vote for the original proposed code of > conduct. I will close voting on Monday at midnight PST. (If the vote > is

[sage-devel] Re: VOTE: code of conduct - ends Monday at midnight, PST.

2014-11-24 Thread Ursula Whitcher
[x ] Yes -- adopt the code of conduct stated below (*) UAW -- 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 thi

Re: [sage-devel] help with QQbar conversion to complex number

2014-11-24 Thread Ben Hutz
hmm...one more question here then I'll stop, as this is turning into more like a sage-support discussion as opposed to sage-devel. This does seem to be doing a good job with high enough precision specified. What is the best way to compare two such interval numbers? The multipliers (after applyi

[sage-devel] Re: VOTE: code of conduct - ends Monday at midnight, PST.

2014-11-24 Thread Vincent Knight
[X] Yes -- adopt the code of conduct stated below (*) Thanks, Vince -- 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 p

Re: [sage-devel] Bug in abs(I*x).diff(x)

2014-11-24 Thread Bill Page
On 22 November 2014 at 12:34, Ondřej Čertík wrote: > On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Bill Page wrote: >> ... >> FriCAS currently does not implement a symbolic 'conjugate' operator. >> The issue concerns whether adding 'conjugate' is a good idea and only >> secondly how to differentiate it. > > A

Re: [sage-devel] help with QQbar conversion to complex number

2014-11-24 Thread Jonas Jermann
Hi In particular: Try .simplify()! In my case that produced an improvement factor >1000 in some cases. Best Jonas On 24.11.2014 20:54, Ben Hutz wrote: Thanks Vincent. I can give that a try. We did try to approximate earlier with CC and the errors were compounding too much (we do a bunch m

Re: [sage-devel] help with QQbar conversion to complex number

2014-11-24 Thread Ben Hutz
Thanks Vincent. I can give that a try. We did try to approximate earlier with CC and the errors were compounding too much (we do a bunch more stuff after this), but maybe approximating the roots with CIF will do a better job. It sounds like the recursion depth error is actually expected for num

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Code of Conduct

2014-11-24 Thread William Stein
I mean the time that is just over 12 hours from now... - William Stein (cell phone) On Nov 24, 2014 11:36 AM, "Nils Bruin" wrote: > On Saturday, November 22, 2014 10:39:37 AM UTC-8, William wrote: >> >> I will start a new thread on sage-devel with a clear title "VOTE: code >> of conduct", copy o

Re: [sage-devel] Code of Conduct (missing dependencies)

2014-11-24 Thread Thierry
Hi, On 24/11/2014 15:06, kcrisman wrote: > It seemed to me that this was an attempt to provide some slightly less > arbitrary measure than "the BDFL and whoever he likes" or "the release > manager and his friends". I am pretty sure that there were calls to > perhaps find a different measure. Natur

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Code of Conduct

2014-11-24 Thread Nils Bruin
On Saturday, November 22, 2014 10:39:37 AM UTC-8, William wrote: > > I will start a new thread on sage-devel with a clear title "VOTE: code > of conduct", copy of the proposed code, and [ ] Yes/ [ ] No option, > and a time limit. Good job going for the edge case on the time limit:-) Does your M

Re: [sage-devel] help with QQbar conversion to complex number

2014-11-24 Thread Vincent Delecroix
Hi Ben, You are dealing with complicated numbers, it is not surprising that things like "exactify" or "__cmp__" lead to maximum recursion errors. If you want something faster than QQbar you can either: - do approximation earlier in the code - try to work with number fields Note that your exampl

[sage-devel] help with QQbar conversion to complex number

2014-11-24 Thread Ben Hutz
I'm having trouble with getting a complex approximation to a QQbar number. We're working with symmetric polynomials of multipliers of periodic points, so the numbers generated are complicated and the failure occurs fairly far along in the computation, so the code to generate the error is a littl

[sage-devel] Re: VOTE: code of conduct - ends Monday at midnight, PST.

2014-11-24 Thread Franco Saliola
[X] Yes -- adopt the code of conduct stated below (*) -- 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 gro

[sage-devel] Re: Do we have a make target to clean upstream directory?

2014-11-24 Thread kcrisman
> As time goes it gets bigger and bigger... > +1 (only if it is documented properly!) -- 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...@g

[sage-devel] Do we have a make target to clean upstream directory?

2014-11-24 Thread Jean-Pierre Flori
As time goes it gets bigger and bigger... -- 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 emai

[sage-devel] Re: VOTE: code of conduct - ends Monday at midnight, PST.

2014-11-24 Thread Mike Zabrocki
[X] Yes -- adopt the code of conduct stated below -- 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, s

Re: [sage-devel] Code of Conduct (missing dependencies)

2014-11-24 Thread kcrisman
> > Trac tickets and comments, however, are public. Thus, among the many > good questions raised by Thierry which deserve an answer, I am also > interested by the answer to the following question: > > I consider myself as a Sage developer, i have never heard about this > initiative before. Cou

[sage-devel] Re: Documentation links

2014-11-24 Thread kcrisman
> Most of the translations mentioned on http://www.sagemath.org/help.html > are in fact broken links, for example > http://www.sagemath.org/de/html/thematische_anleitungen/index.html > > > The link to the "Tutorial (Printed & Bound)" is a printed version of the > Sage-3.4 tutorial from 2009.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage installation guide and git

2014-11-24 Thread kcrisman
> > > We should for sure mention the git repo on the download-source page > too. If I could create a pull request against the download-source web > I would. > You can! https://github.com/sagemath/website/blob/master/src/download-source.html -- You received this message because you are subs

Re: [sage-devel] Code of Conduct (missing dependencies)

2014-11-24 Thread Nathann Cohen
Hello, > Realistically, that is not how we operate. Somebody opens a ticket, works on > it, and then posts the result for review. I have found quite a number of > random failures on the buildbot (tagged by the random_fail keyword: > http://trac.sagemath.org/query?keywords=~random_fail) and nobody

[sage-devel] Re: VOTE: code of conduct - ends Monday at midnight, PST.

2014-11-24 Thread chris wuthrich
[X ] Yes -- adopt the code of conduct stated below -- 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

[sage-devel] Re: VOTE: code of conduct - ends Monday at midnight, PST.

2014-11-24 Thread mmarco
[X] No -- do not adopt the code of conduct stated below -- 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 gr

[sage-devel] Documentation links

2014-11-24 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
Most of the translations mentioned on http://www.sagemath.org/help.html are in fact broken links, for example http://www.sagemath.org/de/html/thematische_anleitungen/index.html The link to the "Tutorial (Printed & Bound)" is a printed version of the Sage-3.4 tutorial from 2009. Is this still re