Re: [sage-devel] Re: No highlights in the release notes

2017-05-26 Thread John Cremona
I think it is a good idea to have highlights in the release notes, otherwise we may give the impression that all we do is fix bugs (sometimes). There must be many Sage users who do not bother to upgrade every time, possibly basing that decision on whether anything interestng strikes them in the r

[sage-devel] Re: No highlights in the release notes

2017-05-26 Thread Kwankyu Lee
> > Perhaps it would be possible to have, in addition to the compulsory AUTHOR > and REVIEWER fields, in sage-trac a new optional field HIGHLIGHTS, that > the > author can fill with some text if (s)he believes the ticket is worth it > The text should be refined, unlike the others that we usua

Re: [sage-devel] Re: No highlights in the release notes

2017-05-26 Thread Jori Mäntysalo
On Fri, 26 May 2017, Simon King wrote: This was done in ~10 bigger ticket and another ~10 with small modifications. As an example see https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/21861 Hence the ticket system would be wrong place for this. For something like this we should have a wiki page. How do you co

[sage-devel] Re: No highlights in the release notes

2017-05-26 Thread Simon King
Hi Jori, On 2017-05-26, Jori =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E4ntysalo?= wrote: > This was done in ~10 bigger ticket and another ~10 with small > modifications. As an example see https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/21861 > > Hence the ticket system would be wrong place for this. For something like > this we shou

[sage-devel] Re: No highlights in the release notes

2017-05-26 Thread Simon King
Hi! On 2017-05-26, Kwankyu Lee wrote: > To continue the heritage, the authors should be supported and encouraged by > the system to make writing a short note for highlights not a burden but a > voluntary work motivated by desires to show off his or her work. Perhaps it would be possible to hav

Re: [sage-devel] Re: No highlights in the release notes

2017-05-26 Thread Erik Bray
On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 9:11 AM, Jori Mäntysalo wrote: > On Fri, 26 May 2017, Kwankyu Lee wrote: > >> As an example, I could put something like this for 8.0: >> >> - Finite lattices now have function to compute congruence, and >> several >> congruence-related functions like quoti

Re: [sage-devel] Re: No highlights in the release notes

2017-05-26 Thread Jori Mäntysalo
On Fri, 26 May 2017, Kwankyu Lee wrote: As an example, I could put something like this for 8.0: - Finite lattices now have function to compute congruence, and several congruence-related functions like quotient lattice, lattice of congruences and checks if a lattice is re

Re: [sage-devel] Re: No highlights in the release notes

2017-05-26 Thread Kwankyu Lee
On Friday, May 26, 2017 at 7:10:43 AM UTC+2, Jori Mäntysalo wrote: > > How many developer does something to highlight **in a particular > release**? > I don't know. But who knows before we ask developers? > As an example, I could put something like this for 8.0: > > - Finite lattices now

Re: [sage-devel] Re: No highlights in the release notes

2017-05-25 Thread Jori Mäntysalo
How many developer does something to highlight **in a particular release**? As an example, I could put something like this for 8.0: - Finite lattices now have function to compute congruence, and several congruence-related functions like quotient lattice, lattice of congruences and checks if a

[sage-devel] Re: No highlights in the release notes

2017-05-25 Thread Kwankyu Lee
On Thursday, May 25, 2017 at 10:46:22 PM UTC+2, Sébastien Labbé wrote: > > For some time, Minh was writing highlighted release notes. Here is the > last one I found of him (already 8 years ago): > > https://mvngu.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/sage-4-1-1-released/ > > Wow, that is a great historic exa

[sage-devel] Re: No highlights in the release notes

2017-05-25 Thread Sébastien Labbé
and some people helped him: "Rob Beezer, Nathann Cohen, John Cremona, Simon King, Sébastien Labbé, and Jens Rasch contributed to writing this release tour." On Thursday, May 25, 2017 at 10:46:22 PM UTC+2, Sébastien Labbé wrote: > > For some time, Minh was writing highlighted release notes. Here

[sage-devel] Re: No highlights in the release notes

2017-05-25 Thread Sébastien Labbé
For some time, Minh was writing highlighted release notes. Here is the last one I found of him (already 8 years ago): https://mvngu.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/sage-4-1-1-released/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe fro