On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Jonathan <gu...@uwosh.edu> wrote:
> I'd like to get wider distribution of the new interface for Jmol.  I'm
> sure it is not perfect, but I'm getting no feedback with it as an
> optional .spkg.  I'm pretty sure it works as well as what is in Sage
> now, so although it needs input and work,

What work does it need?

>  I would like to argue for
> including it, so that we can start getting feedback.
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Jul 13, 6:49 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Sage Developers,
>>
>> I'm setting the Sage-5.0 target date for August 31, 2010 
>> (seehttp://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/milestone/sage-5.0).  The goals
>> are:
>>
>>  1. Windows port via 
>> Cygwin:http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/wiki/CygwinPort
>>  2. Upgrade PARI to svn: #9343
>>  3. Upgrade MPIR to version 2.x: #8664
>>  4. Raise the coverage score to 90%
>>  5. (Done) Sparc Solaris 10
>>
>> What follows is a brief discussion of the status of each of these.
>>
>>  1. Windows port via 
>> Cygwin:http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/wiki/CygwinPort
>>
>> There is still some work to do on this.   See the 13 tickets I opened at
>>
>>    http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/wiki/CygwinPort
>>
>> So far, Mike Hansen has done an amazing job on this (I've helped some
>> too).    We could really, really use help here, especially because
>> this work can go on independently of other things.  This document
>> explains a lot about cygwin:http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/
>>
>>  2. Upgrade PARI to svn: #9343
>>
>> Robert Bradshaw, John Cremona and I did a huge chunk of this two weeks
>> ago, and John also did  a bunch more yesterday.   What remains is just
>> resolving a few doctest failures, some of which might be subtle.
>>
>>  3. Upgrade MPIR to version 2.x: #8664
>>
>> Nobody has done anything on this for two months.   Anybody could work
>> on this.  It's very easy -- just make an spkg, then test the sage
>> build and report issues.  Pretty straightforward for almost anybody to
>> do.
>>
>>  4. Raise the coverage score to 90%
>>
>> If you delete the devel/sage/sage/server directory, then Sage-4.5.rc0
>> has this coverage score:
>>
>> Overall weighted coverage score:  84.6%
>>
>> So we have barely even budged in a while.  That said, I suspect there
>> are a lot of doctest patches that just need review or have positive
>> reviewed, but need to get merged into sage-4.5.rc0.
>>
>>  5. (Done) Sparc Solaris 10
>>
>> This is done.
>>
>> ----
>>
>> (Note: the above are the Sage-5.0 goals.  This is not negotiable.  If
>> you disagree with them, send email to sage-flame, not this list.)
>>
>>  -- William
>
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University of Washington
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