Re: Re: [sage-devel] How to tell if a FLOSS project is doomed to FAIL

2011-03-10 Thread Martin Albrecht
What would be nice: better recognition that we are doing some hard work that may an impact on the quality of sage in the long term much like portability work. At present time you can use a gentoo prefix to build sage on other linuxes and OS X, windows is the next frontier (but that require

[sage-devel] How to tell if a FLOSS project is doomed to FAIL

2011-03-09 Thread Paulo César Pereira de Andrade
This may be of interest https://www.theopensourceway.org/wiki/How_to_tell_if_a_FLOSS_project_is_doomed_to_FAIL and should explain why sage is not included and/or built from sources in any major distro. Well, I make rpms for Mandriva, and there is the gentoo port... My last work on a

Re: [sage-devel] How to tell if a FLOSS project is doomed to FAIL

2011-03-09 Thread Tom Boothby
I wonder... can we make money off of said reality TV show? 2011/3/9 Paulo César Pereira de Andrade paulo.cesar.pereira.de.andr...@gmail.com:  This may be of interest https://www.theopensourceway.org/wiki/How_to_tell_if_a_FLOSS_project_is_doomed_to_FAIL and should explain why sage is not

Re: [sage-devel] How to tell if a FLOSS project is doomed to FAIL

2011-03-09 Thread Robert Bradshaw
2011/3/9 Paulo César Pereira de Andrade paulo.cesar.pereira.de.andr...@gmail.com:  This may be of interest https://www.theopensourceway.org/wiki/How_to_tell_if_a_FLOSS_project_is_doomed_to_FAIL and should explain why sage is not included and/or built from sources in any major distro. Well, I

Re: [sage-devel] How to tell if a FLOSS project is doomed to FAIL

2011-03-09 Thread David Kirkby
2011/3/9 Paulo César Pereira de Andrade paulo.cesar.pereira.de.andr...@gmail.com:  This may be of interest https://www.theopensourceway.org/wiki/How_to_tell_if_a_FLOSS_project_is_doomed_to_FAIL Did he used rand() to come up with those numbers? There does not appear to be any justification for

Re: [sage-devel] How to tell if a FLOSS project is doomed to FAIL

2011-03-09 Thread Francois Bissey
This may be of interest https://www.theopensourceway.org/wiki/How_to_tell_if_a_FLOSS_project_is_doo med_to_FAIL and should explain why sage is not included and/or built from sources in any major distro. Well, I make rpms for Mandriva, and there is the gentoo port... My turn? :)

Re: [sage-devel] How to tell if a FLOSS project is doomed to FAIL

2011-03-09 Thread Paulo César Pereira de Andrade
2011/3/9 Francois Bissey francois.bis...@canterbury.ac.nz:    This may be of interest https://www.theopensourceway.org/wiki/How_to_tell_if_a_FLOSS_project_is_doo med_to_FAIL and should explain why sage is not included and/or built from sources in any major distro. Well, I make rpms for