Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi On Sat, 10 Sept 2022 at 21:32, Matthias Koeppe wrote: > A draft of the Trac-to-GitHub transition guide is now available at: > https://github.com/sagemath/sage/wiki/migration-from-trac-to-Git**b > > Please let me know what's missing or unclear. > Thank you for editing that! The wiki page is

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread seb....@gmail.com
> I appreciate the efforts by Matthias and others to provide a roadmap for the proposed transition. +1 Nobody would buy a new house which has not been built yet without a good animation of how it would look like. > Is there more than "trac is what we're used to"? Can those who are opposed pl

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread seb....@gmail.com
dim...@gmail.com schrieb am Sonntag, 11. September 2022 um 01:36:31 UTC+2: > > > On Sun, 11 Sep 2022, 00:22 seb@gmail.com, wrote: > >> Matthias Koeppe schrieb am Samstag, 10. September 2022 um 21:32:50 UTC+2: >> >>> On Saturday, September 10, 2022 at 8:12:48 AM UTC-7 Matthias Koeppe >>> wr

Re: [sage-devel] On changing Bernoulli(1) to +½

2022-09-10 Thread Jeremy Tan
Considering the subsequent replies to my proposal, I'm perfectly happy with implementing B_1 = +½ in Sage with the 1-year deprecation policy. During the deprecation period I would expect an extra boolean keyword argument to bernoulli() enforcing B_1 = +½ if true and relying on the backend librar

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Sun, 11 Sep 2022, 00:36 Dima Pasechnik, wrote: > > > On Sun, 11 Sep 2022, 00:22 seb@gmail.com, wrote: > >> Matthias Koeppe schrieb am Samstag, 10. September 2022 um 21:32:50 UTC+2: >> >>> On Saturday, September 10, 2022 at 8:12:48 AM UTC-7 Matthias Koeppe >>> wrote: >>> I've added a

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Sun, 11 Sep 2022, 00:22 seb@gmail.com, wrote: > Matthias Koeppe schrieb am Samstag, 10. September 2022 um 21:32:50 UTC+2: > >> On Saturday, September 10, 2022 at 8:12:48 AM UTC-7 Matthias Koeppe wrote: >> >>> I've added a draft of a proposed workflow on GitHub with the idea to >>> just fol

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread John H Palmieri
I have heard lots of support for moving to GitHub, and I do not really understand the arguments against. Is there more than "trac is what we're used to"? Can those who are opposed please articulate the reasons? I appreciate the efforts by Matthias and others to provide a roadmap for the propose

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread seb....@gmail.com
Matthias Koeppe schrieb am Samstag, 10. September 2022 um 21:32:50 UTC+2: > On Saturday, September 10, 2022 at 8:12:48 AM UTC-7 Matthias Koeppe wrote: > >> I've added a draft of a proposed workflow on GitHub with the idea to just >> follow the Trac workflow. >> Help is welcome in adding links to

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread Nathan Dunfield
I think moving to GitHub makes total sense. Every other open-source math project I use regularly is on GH, and there are big network-effect benefits to being where everyone else is as others have already pointed out: easier for others to contribute, easier to get credit for contributions, easie

Re: [sage-devel] On changing Bernoulli(1) to +½

2022-09-10 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On Sat, 10 Sept 2022 at 18:49, William Stein wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 10, 2022 at 10:04 AM davida...@gmail.com > wrote: > > > > > I'm curious if the change breaks any code anywhere else in Sage (e.g., > > > maybe for computing q-expansions of modular forms?)... > > > > You guessed right. I did a

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread Matthias Koeppe
On Saturday, September 10, 2022 at 8:12:48 AM UTC-7 Matthias Koeppe wrote: > I've added a draft of a proposed workflow on GitHub with the idea to just > follow the Trac workflow. > Help is welcome in adding links to documentation for the various bits. > > I think we can have a fleshed out Trac to

[sage-devel] Re: Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread Marc Mezzarobba
Matthias Koeppe wrote: > OK, good point, and I agree. I'll work that into the wiki page. Thanks! -- Marc -- 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-de

Re: [sage-devel] On changing Bernoulli(1) to +½

2022-09-10 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Sep 10, 2022 at 10:04 AM davida...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I'm curious if the change breaks any code anywhere else in Sage (e.g., > > maybe for computing q-expansions of modular forms?)... > > You guessed right. I did a quick local change to the bernoulli function and > it indeed breaks

[sage-devel] Re: Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread Matthias Koeppe
On Saturday, September 10, 2022 at 10:47:01 AM UTC-7 Marc Mezzarobba wrote: > Matthias Koeppe wrote: > > No, Issues are not just for bugs, they can also be used for planning > > enhancements. > > Sure; the changes I was suggesting are an oversimplification. But I > don't think we should keep w

[sage-devel] Re: Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread Marc Mezzarobba
Matthias Koeppe wrote: > No, Issues are not just for bugs, they can also be used for planning > enhancements. Sure; the changes I was suggesting are an oversimplification. But I don't think we should keep with the practice of forcing developers to open a dedicated issue for every proposed change.

[sage-devel] Re: Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread Matthias Koeppe
On Saturday, September 10, 2022 at 10:38:16 AM UTC-7 Marc Mezzarobba wrote: > Matthias Koeppe wrote: > > Yes, of course, and that's what I am documenting > > at https://github.com/sagemath/sage/wiki/migration-from-trac-to-Git**b > > Sorry, apparently I misunderstood your proposal. > > I would

[sage-devel] Re: Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread Marc Mezzarobba
Matthias Koeppe wrote: > Yes, of course, and that's what I am documenting > at https://github.com/sagemath/sage/wiki/migration-from-trac-to-Git**b Sorry, apparently I misunderstood your proposal. I would suggest the following changes then: "Instead of opening a Trac ticket" --> "To report a bug,

[sage-devel] Re: Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread Matthias Koeppe
On Saturday, September 10, 2022 at 10:30:32 AM UTC-7 Marc Mezzarobba wrote: > Aram Dermenjian wrote: > > In particular, github shows contributions made by a user to > > various projects. > > This is true to some extent (only for commits as opposed to code review > or other kinds of contributio

[sage-devel] Re: Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread Marc Mezzarobba
Aram Dermenjian wrote: > In particular, github shows contributions made by a user to > various projects. This is true to some extent (only for commits as opposed to code review or other kinds of contributions, and maybe only for users who have set up their account in a certain way) even when the c

[sage-devel] Re: Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread Matthias Koeppe
On Saturday, September 10, 2022 at 10:23:51 AM UTC-7 Marc Mezzarobba wrote: > Matthias Koeppe wrote: > > I've added a draft of a proposed workflow on GitHub with the idea to > > just follow the Trac workflow. I should have said "... to the extent that makes sense." > In my eyes at least, it

[sage-devel] Re: Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread Marc Mezzarobba
Matthias Koeppe wrote: > I've added a draft of a proposed workflow on GitHub with the idea to > just follow the Trac workflow. In my eyes at least, it is a defect of our current workflow that tickets are used for tracking both bugs and proposed enhancements. On git**b, wouldn't it be more natural

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread John H Palmieri
On Friday, September 9, 2022 at 12:08:38 PM UTC-7 dim...@gmail.com wrote: > On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 7:58 PM Thierry > wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 09, 2022 at 04:07:48PM +0100, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > Several people promised to look for academic hosting for trac. Nothing

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread Matthias Koeppe
On Saturday, September 10, 2022 at 2:02:03 AM UTC-7 aram.derme...@gmail.com wrote: > I wanted to also bring up one (minor) positive for moving to github which > is less technical. Moving to github would be a motivating factor for people > to contribute to sagemath as it gives a pathway to work

Re: [sage-devel] On changing Bernoulli(1) to +½

2022-09-10 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Sep 10, 2022 at 7:17 AM Jeremy Tan wrote: > > My name is Jeremy Tan, or Parcly Taxel in the furry/MLP art scene. As of this > post I am a recent graduate from the National University of Singapore with > two degrees in maths and computer science. > > Over the past month I had a good read

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread Matthias Koeppe
On Saturday, September 10, 2022 at 5:09:04 AM UTC-7 Dima Pasechnik wrote: > I've enabled wikis on our GitHub and started > > https://github.com/sagemath/sage/wiki/migration-from-trac-to-Git**b > > Please feel free to add content there. > Thanks, Dima! I've added a draft of a proposed workflow o

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread 'Travis Scrimshaw' via sage-devel
> Just to give a different perspective, from someone who is not a Sage > developer but is a Sage donor, the only reason I give money to Sage every > month is because I happened to see your appeal on GitHub. Thank you very much for your donations. > If you had no GitHub presence at all, I

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread 'Travis Scrimshaw' via sage-devel
> > > I really dislike Github's decentralized approach with PR and having to >> have separate clones of the repo within each user. My understanding is if >> two people have different fixes, then they individually submit PRs that are >> not explicitly linked with each other, much less with a spe

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread kcrisman
For what it's worth, I think that Jan makes some very salient points, such as > I'd be happy to assist with self-hosting (so gitlab) and perhaps sponsor a container (even a separate machine for CI) but I think the sagemath project would probably be better off on git**b. I'm also hesitant to inv

[sage-devel] On changing Bernoulli(1) to +½

2022-09-10 Thread Jeremy Tan
My name is Jeremy Tan, or Parcly Taxel in the furry/MLP art scene. As of this post I am a recent graduate from the National University of Singapore with two degrees in maths and computer science. Over the past month I had a good read of Peter Luschny's Bernoulli Manifesto (http://luschny.de/math/z

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread AndrewVSutherland
Just to give a different perspective, from someone who is not a Sage developer but is a Sage donor, the only reason I give money to Sage every month is because I happened to see your appeal on GitHub. If you had no GitHub presence at all, I likely would not be a donor. Not because I would not

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Sat, 10 Sep 2022, 10:02 Aram Dermenjian, wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm only an occasional developer with sage, but I wanted to also bring up > one (minor) positive for moving to github which is less technical. Moving > to github would be a motivating factor for people to contribute to sagemath > as

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Sat, 10 Sep 2022, 10:56 Jan Groenewald, wrote: > Hi > > https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracUsers > In 2020, 21, 22, _only_ Edgewall & Trac-hacks (the trac people), and > sagemath are listed as trac users bothering to update their details. > > I don't know how accurate the below articles are, b

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread Kwankyu Lee
On Saturday, September 10, 2022 at 6:26:29 PM UTC+9 dim...@gmail.com wrote: > Moving away from trac is basically a necessity now, as our devops are breaking down for some time, and it only gets worse. I wish that our trac survives the present crisis so that some people can have enough time to pl

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracUsers In 2020, 21, 22, _only_ Edgewall & Trac-hacks (the trac people), and sagemath are listed as trac users bothering to update their details. I don't know how accurate the below articles are, but found them intersting to read. Would be interested in comment

Re: [sage-devel] Re: load deprecation warning in SageCell

2022-09-10 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Sat, 10 Sep 2022, 10:01 Mike, wrote: > The sage cell server I'm using is sagecell.sagemath.org. Is there > someone I should ask to apply that patch? > the main contact for this sagecell is listed there on the 1st page, at the Problems section near the bottom. > On Wednesday, September 7,

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Sat, 10 Sep 2022, 09:35 Vincent Delecroix, <20100.delecr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am in the same mood as Travis : if I was to consider a move to > github I would like to have a clear and complete overview of the > changes in the workflow (how do we set ticket dependencies? how > revi

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread Aram Dermenjian
Hi all, I'm only an occasional developer with sage, but I wanted to also bring up one (minor) positive for moving to github which is less technical. Moving to github would be a motivating factor for people to contribute to sagemath as it gives a pathway to work in industry (programming) if they ch

Re: [sage-devel] Re: load deprecation warning in SageCell

2022-09-10 Thread Mike
The sage cell server I'm using is sagecell.sagemath.org. Is there someone I should ask to apply that patch? On Wednesday, September 7, 2022 at 4:23:37 PM UTC-4 dim...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 9:14 PM Mike wrote: > > > > Since the referenced fix won't be available until sage-9.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread Vincent Delecroix
Hello, I am in the same mood as Travis : if I was to consider a move to github I would like to have a clear and complete overview of the changes in the workflow (how do we set ticket dependencies? how reviews will work? management of releases? etc). For me the discussion in this thread is very pre

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Sat, 10 Sep 2022, 05:48 Matthias Koeppe, wrote: > On Friday, September 9, 2022 at 9:34:16 PM UTC-7 Travis Scrimshaw wrote: > >> I really dislike Github's decentralized approach with PR and having to >> have separate clones of the repo within each user. My understanding is if >> two people have

Re: [sage-devel] Re: incremental migration to github? [prompted by FUNDING issues!!!] + general flakiness of trac

2022-09-10 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Sat, 10 Sep 2022, 05:34 'Travis Scrimshaw' via sage-devel, < sage-devel@googlegroups.com> wrote: > I really dislike Github's decentralized approach with PR and having to > have separate clones of the repo within each user. My understanding is if > two people have different fixes, then they indi