Re: [sage-devel] Is there going to be a sage-4.4 stabilisation release ?

2010-03-09 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Nick Alexander ncalexan...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, then you tell people that their hard work will not be packaged in the next iteration. Maybe that's life, but it will certainly discourage me from contributing when I'm told in advance that

Re: [sage-devel] Is there going to be a sage-4.4 stabilisation release ?

2010-03-08 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Mar 7, 2010, at 5:07 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Robert Bradshaw wrote: On Mar 6, 2010, at 4:50 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I thought there was going to be a 4.4 stabilisation release, but if I create a new trac ticket, I'm given the milestone options are 4.3.4 and 4.5 - there is no 4.4

Re: [sage-devel] Is there going to be a sage-4.4 stabilisation release ?

2010-03-08 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Robert Bradshaw wrote: On Mar 7, 2010, at 5:07 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Robert Bradshaw wrote: On Mar 6, 2010, at 4:50 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I thought there was going to be a 4.4 stabilisation release, but if I create a new trac ticket, I'm given the milestone options are 4.3.4 and

Re: [sage-devel] Is there going to be a sage-4.4 stabilisation release ?

2010-03-08 Thread Nick Alexander
In my personal opinion, a decent stabilisation release could be achieved by everyone submitting just bug fixes. Yep. The problem is that this involves telling everyone what to do. Not really. You tell people what a release will consist of. It is to them whether or not they want to submit

Re: [sage-devel] Is there going to be a sage-4.4 stabilisation release ?

2010-03-08 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Nick Alexander ncalexan...@gmail.com wrote: In my personal opinion, a decent stabilisation release could be achieved by everyone submitting just bug fixes. Yep. The problem is that this involves telling everyone what to do. Not really. You tell people what a

Re: [sage-devel] Is there going to be a sage-4.4 stabilisation release ?

2010-03-08 Thread Minh Nguyen
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Re: [sage-devel] Is there going to be a sage-4.4 stabilisation release ?

2010-03-07 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Robert Bradshaw wrote: On Mar 6, 2010, at 4:50 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I thought there was going to be a 4.4 stabilisation release, but if I create a new trac ticket, I'm given the milestone options are 4.3.4 and 4.5 - there is no 4.4 choice. IMHO, it would be good if the stabilisation

Re: [sage-devel] Is there going to be a sage-4.4 stabilisation release ?

2010-03-07 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Having a rule that * Now updates to standard packages (since these often introduce as many problems as they solve) * Only bug fixes - no enhancements. then IMHO, we could stabilise Sage somewhat. Sorry, I was suggesting there were *no* updates to standard

[sage-devel] Is there going to be a sage-4.4 stabilisation release ?

2010-03-06 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I thought there was going to be a 4.4 stabilisation release, but if I create a new trac ticket, I'm given the milestone options are 4.3.4 and 4.5 - there is no 4.4 choice. IMHO, it would be good if the stabilisation release did go ahead, and *only* bug-fixes were permitted. i.e. no new code

Re: [sage-devel] Is there going to be a sage-4.4 stabilisation release ?

2010-03-06 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Mar 6, 2010, at 4:50 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I thought there was going to be a 4.4 stabilisation release, but if I create a new trac ticket, I'm given the milestone options are 4.3.4 and 4.5 - there is no 4.4 choice. IMHO, it would be good if the stabilisation release did go ahead,