On 5/26/26 11:37, Qian Yun wrote:
I took a look, ")credits" existed in NAG era, one name per line,
91 in total.
I very much guess that Tim would want us to include even more people.
Since he is the one with most inside into who worked on what in
Scratchpad II and AXIOM times, we can only trust the names that he can
give us and/or contact the old fellows if they are still around.
Probably Tim decided to display 3 per line to save space.
I kinda liked current format.
Well, it shouldn't be to hard to write a little routine to display a
one-name-per-line file in 3 columns.
In fact, I've created
https://fricas.github.io/contributors.html
which should contain all the contributors since FriCAS was forked from
AXIOM.
Maybe, we should also start the habit of listing the contributors to
each release in the release notes. I think the SageMath project is doing
that.
Ralf
- Qian
On 5/26/26 2:04 PM, 'Ralf Hemmecke' via FriCAS - computer algebra system
wrote:
A side remark about the format...
Wouldn't it make sense to list the names one per line and alphabetically?
I somehow would even like to put the lastname into the first positon,
but there are certainly different opinions and there is a multitude of
varieties of how people in different parts of the world write their
names. So no need to follow this weak opion of mine.
Maybe it would also make sense to split the list into "Contribution to
Axiom" and "Contribution to FriCAS". In the contribution to FriCAS, we
could also add the year of contribution, but that is not so important,
since it can easily be extracted from the ChangeLog file or the git
history.
Ralf
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