On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:17:59AM +0100, Thomas Neidhart wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Gilles Sadowski <
> gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi.
> >
> > Please have a look at the next candidate (RC5), and vote for the release
> > of Commons Math 3.1.
> >
> > ----------
> > Tag:
> >   https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/math/tags/MATH_3_1_RC5/
> >
> > Site:
> >   http://people.apache.org/builds/commons/math/3.1/RC5/
> >
> > Binaries:
> >
> > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecommons-052/org/apache/commons/commons-math3/3.1/
> >
> > [ ] +1 Release it.
> > [ ] +0 Go ahead; I don't care.
> > [ ] -0 There are a few minor glitches: ...
> > [ ] -1 No, do not release it because ...
> >
> > This vote will close in 72 hours.
> > ----------
> >
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this is not yet my vote, just a request for clarification.
> 
> I checked again the Clirr errors, and there are still the two related to
> the probability method in LogNormal and NormalDistribution.
> 
> In 3.0, there was a method with only 1 parameter, which always returned 0.
> Now there is a probability method with two parameters, which is defined in
> the implemented interface AbstractRealDistribution.

And... there is a method with one parameter that always return zero in the
_parent_ class. Any code the calls the one-arg "probablility" method will
get the same result (i.e zero) as before.

> 
> You mentioned that this is a false positive, but I doubt this.

Why?

> Maybe the
> probability method was never used,

It was not used in CM, but that would not be a good excuse I guess. ;-)

> but then it should at least be mentioned
> in the release notes.

As I indicated previously, if this is a false positive, there is doubtful
usefulness to explaining a bug in a reporting tool.


Regards,
Gilles

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