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 : >  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

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 : >  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 ther

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 : >  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 the numbers, or the conclusions that h

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 : >>   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 ther

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

2011-03-10 Thread Francois Bissey
> > 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 t

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 requir

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

2011-03-16 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 09:21:54AM +, Martin Albrecht wrote: > > 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. I also super appreciate your hard work. I am measuring almost