Re: [sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-21 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > On 10/21/10 11:23 AM, Burcin Erocal wrote: >> >> On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:04:56 +0100 >> "Dr. David Kirkby"  wrote: >> >>> Several categories have nobody at all assigned to them. Since I'm an >>> admin on trac I can see this. These include:

Re: [sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-21 Thread Robert Bradshaw
Thanks, very reassuring. Perhaps it would be useful to make that more clear at http://purple.sagemath.org/dsage.html (though that page really seems to be more about the differences rather than relationship between the two projects). On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:54 AM, William Stein wrote: > On Thu,

Re: [sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-21 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 10/21/10 11:23 AM, Burcin Erocal wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:04:56 +0100 "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: Several categories have nobody at all assigned to them. Since I'm an admin on trac I can see this. These include: * cygwin * debian-package * distribution * dsage * experimen

Re: [sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-21 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 10/21/10 11:23 AM, Burcin Erocal wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:04:56 +0100 "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: Several categories have nobody at all assigned to them. Since I'm an admin on trac I can see this. These include: * cygwin * debian-package * distribution * dsage * experimen

Re: [sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-21 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > Thus psage will be a superset of a subset of sage. Yes. > Do you envision a > migration path of code from psage to sage? Yes. > (Perhaps not instigated or > executed by the original authors of the code of course.) Yes. > Would it be

[sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-21 Thread kcrisman
Very interesting thread, and I'm so pleased William shared some thoughts vis-a-vis PSage. Regardless of whether he's spending more time on PSage right now, I think that for many OSS projects it's difficult to maintain momentum when the lead developer steps back a fair amount. Sage has done quite

[sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-21 Thread Jason Grout
On 10/21/10 5:55 AM, Burcin Erocal wrote: IIRC, Jason suggested at some point to take a look at http://www.reviewboard.org/ for patch reviews. Here is one more possibility, though it may be too formal for our needs: Java Code Review: http://jcodereview.sourceforge.net/ Jason -- To post t

[sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-21 Thread Jason Grout
On 10/21/10 8:03 AM, Burcin Erocal wrote: The week at a time approach you describe below is too much work for me. I doubt if I could put in 2 hours of work for Sage everyday for a whole week. I do however look at the new tickets on trac from time to time, and wouldn't mind either classifying a f

[sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-21 Thread Jason Grout
On 10/21/10 5:55 AM, Burcin Erocal wrote: I have grown very fond of the tracker used by Python recently: http://roundup-tracker.org/ I like the fact that you can do everything via email. This feature would provide an easy way to submit patches you're working on to the issue trackers. We could j

Re: [sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-21 Thread Burcin Erocal
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:24:13 -0700 William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Robert Bradshaw > wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Johan S. R. Nielsen > > wrote: > >> I think that Burcin's suggestion is excellent. Development of Sage > >> should definitely move towards mor

Re: [sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-21 Thread Burcin Erocal
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:08:12 -0700 William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 7:41 AM, kcrisman wrote: > > > >> Not to be overly pessimistic, but one metric we do not collect, > >> but Google do for us, is the number of posts each month to > >> sage-devel. There has been a very dramatic fal

Re: [sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-21 Thread Burcin Erocal
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:04:56 +0100 "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: > To make matters easier to follow, lets look at Burcin's proposals. > > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/msg/40d2af34d86586de?hl=en > > and consider them, here in an abbreviated and expanded form. > > 1) Burcin said: "Many

Re: [sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-21 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:24 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Robert Bradshaw > wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Johan S. R. Nielsen >> wrote: >>> I think that Burcin's suggestion is excellent. Development of Sage >>> should definitely move towards more stru

Re: [sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-20 Thread Tom Boothby
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:24 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Robert Bradshaw > wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Johan S. R. Nielsen >> wrote: >>> I think that Burcin's suggestion is excellent. Development of Sage >>> should definitely move towards more stru

Re: [sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-20 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Johan S. R. Nielsen > wrote: >> I think that Burcin's suggestion is excellent. Development of Sage >> should definitely move towards more structure, documentation, testing >> and other software engineering

Re: [sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-20 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Johan S. R. Nielsen wrote: > I think that Burcin's suggestion is excellent. Development of Sage > should definitely move towards more structure, documentation, testing > and other software engineering practices, but as for any Open Source- > project, these things s

Re: [sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-20 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 10/20/10 03:41 PM, kcrisman wrote: Often bugs should really be in several categories, but one can only chose one. IMHO it should be a tick-box, not a pull-down. If something with an elliptic I didn't know this was possible on Trac; certainly this would overcome a lot of problems. Likewi

Re: [sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-20 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 7:41 AM, kcrisman wrote: > > >> >> Often bugs should really be in several categories, but one can only chose >> one. >> IMHO it should be a tick-box, not a pull-down. If something with an elliptic > > I didn't know this was possible on Trac; certainly this would overcome >

[sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-20 Thread kcrisman
> > Often bugs should really be in several categories, but one can only chose one. > IMHO it should be a tick-box, not a pull-down. If something with an elliptic I didn't know this was possible on Trac; certainly this would overcome a lot of problems. Likewise, it would be nice to be able to be

[sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-20 Thread Johan S. R. Nielsen
I think that Burcin's suggestion is excellent. Development of Sage should definitely move towards more structure, documentation, testing and other software engineering practices, but as for any Open Source- project, these things should come naturally as the project grows and matures; as has already

[sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-20 Thread Johan S. R. Nielsen
I think that Burcin's suggestion is excellent. Development of Sage should definitely move towards more structure, documentation, testing and other software engineering practices, but as for any Open Source- project, these things should come naturally as the project grows and matures; as has already

Re: [sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-20 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 10/20/10 10:37 AM, Martin Albrecht wrote: The idea of having one piece of a Sage days devoted to people sharing ideas from books they read in a coordinated way sounds plausible as well, though probably it would really depend on the Sage days in question. That would sound good. If each person

Re: Re: [sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-20 Thread Martin Albrecht
> > The idea of having one piece of a Sage days devoted to > > people sharing ideas from books they read in a coordinated way sounds > > plausible as well, though probably it would really depend on the Sage > > days in question. > > That would sound good. If each person read a chapter of a book on

Re: [sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-19 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 10/19/10 05:06 PM, kcrisman wrote: I was not suggesting anyone spend 10,000 hours studying the subject of software engeering. I'm not suggesting people need to be experts. But perhaps spending 20-50 hours on it is not unreasonable. I don't know about you, but I've probably devoted 1000 hours

[sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-19 Thread kcrisman
> I was not suggesting anyone spend 10,000 hours studying the subject of > software engeering. I'm not suggesting people need to be experts. But > perhaps spending 20-50 hours on it is not unreasonable. I don't know > about you, but I've probably devoted 1000 hours to working on Sage, so > 20-50 i

Re: [sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-19 Thread Mike Hansen
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Dr David Kirkby wrote: > If that crashes Sage, and stops lots of people working on a > Sage server, I think that's pretty serious, though not as bad as > incorrect results. It only crashes that one user's session. Each worksheet is run in a different process. --

[sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-19 Thread Dr David Kirkby
On 18 Oct, 21:33, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Dr. David Kirkby > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Dr. David Kirkby > > sage: seed(1,2) > > sage: seed(100,34) > > sage: seed(1,2,3,4,5,6,7) > > > will all crash Sage with an "Unhandled SIGSEGV". Plenty more sets of in

[sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-18 Thread Donald Alan Morrison
On Oct 16, 5:21 am, Burcin Erocal wrote: >[...] > if they are filed in different components. The members of the > bug-wrangler mailing list will be able to see the initial report for > every ticket, so they might recall a similar problem reported a few > days ago. > > Another advantage is that t

[sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-18 Thread kcrisman
> I would submit that practicing good software engineering techniques is > more than a matter of finding the money (and especially time) to read > a good book on it--we all have different priorities on what we can > afford to spend "10,000 hours" on. (Note, I'm not saying it wouldn't > be useful f

[sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-18 Thread Jason Grout
On 10/17/10 9:39 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: On 10/17/10 03:16 PM, Jan Groenewald wrote: Hi I believe any belief that having "bug hunt weeks" is a long term solution is rather flawed. The issues should be tackled at an earlier stage. Despite not being a sufficient solution, are they not none

[sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-16 Thread maldun
Hi, Burcin! I think this is a great Idea! I'm short on time in the next months, but If I'm free again, could help with this. greez, Stefan On 16 Okt., 14:21, Burcin Erocal wrote: > Hi, > > Motivated by the call for the bug days, here is an idea to manage the > rapidly increasing number of "new"