On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Simon King<[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Sage developers, > > I asked the following question in a mail to William Stein and David > Joyner, but William suggested the discussion should be in public. > > Yesterday my cohomology package became an optional spkg. But there are > a lot of homological algebra constructions that aren't in, yet. > However, some features (e.g. Massey products) might soon be > implementable. I am not sure yet, but end of next week might be > possible. > > Assume that you are expert for a topic X, and there is a spkg about X; > hence, you are a potential reviewer. How soon would you be fed up with
Well, "fed-up" might not be the word I woul dus, but in any case it would be highly dependent on my current teaching load, which is at this moment 0.. (However, classes start in 3 weeks!) > seeing yet another version of the X-spkg? How long (as a rule of > thumb) would you suggest to collect more features before publishing a > new spkg version? > > Sage used to have a "publish early and frequently" policy, but I don't > know if it is appropriate for spkgs as well. > > Best regards, > Simon > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
