Hello all: Recently there as been a divisive discussion on the Axiom deveopers list which has led to an Axiom fork. Two lead developers, Martin Rubey and Waldek Hebisch quit. Both are extraordinarily talented programmers and Martin is the author of GUESS, a unique and important package which I described in http://www.sagemath.org:9001/Axiom_as_an_OSCAS The posts labels with "fork" or "fricas" at http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mathematics.axiom.devel/ contain some of the relevant threads. I'll leave it to others to summarize the discussion, I found it rather sad and somewhat shocking.
I would like to open up a partnership with these and other Axiom developers and SAGE, in the hopes of eventually adding to SAGE the CAS functionality which is unique to Axiom. In the hopes of heading off any developer conflicts which echo the recent fork, I'd like to open up a discussion on how this might be structured. Some ideas: 1. Assuimg Axiom becomes part of SAGE, all Axiom patches are to be voted on democratically among the Axiom deveopers. (Majority rules.) 2. If/when there is an agreement in principal to begin a SAGE/Axiom partnership, hopefully including at least (in alphabetical order) Waldek Hebisch, Ralf Hemmecke, Bill Page, and Martin Rubey on the Axiom side, I could (or someone else could) start a sage-axiom googlegroups list. 3. Finally, thanks to google, I found a paper which states that Axiom is a trademark of NAG. Whether this is true or not, or whether this affects what this potential sage-axiom fork should be called, may be worth discussing. I have no strong opinions except that I think a partnership can be potentially very exciting and advantageous for both sides. If there is anything I can do, within my limited abilities, I'll be happy to help. Any comments on any of this? - David Joyner --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
