Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > Ahmed Fasih wrote: >> buntfalke made a good suggestion yesterday and I bring it to your >> attention: can we merge the #sage-devel and #sage-support channels by >> forwarding all connections to #sage-support to #sage-devel? > > > I'm not so sure that is a good idea. Support and developers are two > entirely different set of people. Proficient users are very capable of > giving support, but my have no idea of code development. People > developing code (like myself, who is helping in the port to Solaris), > may have little experience of using Sage. > > To me, the two are separate and should remain that way. >
1. It would be fantastic if users eventually became developers. Many developers started out that way. "Developers" include people that write tutorials and documentation, etc, so that is within the reach of people that don't want to touch code. 2. How many people hang out on #sage-support? A year ago, when I was around it every now and then, there was pretty much nobody on that channel, so it was easy to get the idea that sage was a pretty dead project. Ideally, there would be two channels, mirroring sage-devel and sage-support mailing lists. But if we don't have the manpower to keep two channels active, then it makes sense to me to combine them for now until the IRC user base grows. Jason -- Jason Grout --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
