[sage-devel] Re: A repository for user scripts

2010-05-07 Thread Pablo Angulo
I think Aditya is right: there's a huge gap between writing a decent code snippet, and contributing to SAGE. Apart from code quality, there is the coercion system, the collaborative tools, the review process, the huge libraries which may already contain something similar to what you have done...

[sage-devel] Re: A repository for user scripts

2010-05-07 Thread Harald Schilly
On May 6, 6:35 am, aditya bluemangrou...@gmail.com wrote: I think a site like this could be useful for a couple of reasons ... Well, I might think that the published notebooks at sagenb.org are very close to what you mean. They are just not properly indexed, tagged and interlinked. I.e. if it is

[sage-devel] Re: A repository for user scripts

2010-05-07 Thread aditya
Sounds to me like Sage needs a lot more work before such a repository will be useful. It looks like contributions to the Sage codebase are always welcome, but I think for right now, my energy would be better spent writing documentation and tutorials for Sage. I've noticed that documentation can be

[sage-devel] Re: A repository for user scripts

2010-05-07 Thread Jason Grout
On 05/07/2010 06:29 AM, Pablo Angulo wrote: I think Aditya is right: there's a huge gap between writing a decent code snippet, and contributing to SAGE. Apart from code quality, there is the coercion system, the collaborative tools, the review process, the huge libraries which may already

[sage-devel] Re: A repository for user scripts

2010-05-06 Thread aditya
I think Wikipedia has succeeded in making it easy for anyone to contribute. Very well, I'll work on contributing directly to Sage over the summer. On May 6, 12:21 am, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:35 PM, aditya bluemangrou...@gmail.com wrote: I think a site

[sage-devel] Re: A repository for user scripts

2010-05-05 Thread Jason Grout
On 05/05/2010 10:56 PM, aditya wrote: I haven't been able to find a repository for user scripts written in Sage, like MATLAB Central is for MATLAB. Does such a repository exist, or are there plans for creating one? I'm looking for a summer project, and I'd love to build such a website for Sage

[sage-devel] Re: A repository for user scripts

2010-05-05 Thread aditya
I think a site like this could be useful for a couple of reasons: - MATLAB central contains (among other things) scripts for very specialized uses, like a script for computing the mandelbrot set, or for solving block diagonal matrices etc. For Sage these could be scripts that aren't general

Re: [sage-devel] Re: A repository for user scripts

2010-05-05 Thread William Stein
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:35 PM, aditya bluemangrou...@gmail.com wrote: I think a site like this could be useful for a couple of reasons: - MATLAB central contains (among other things) scripts for very specialized uses, like a script for computing the mandelbrot set, or for solving block