Hello!
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 07:51:06 -0700
William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ... Sometimes people post one word messages to
> sage-flame such as "F___!", just to let off steam.
>
Wow! I definitely should subscribe to this one! :)
Beyond jokes, I can give my - the regular Sage user - view on this
question. I'm subscribed to the "sage-devel" and "sage-support" lists
at the moment. I am not a developer (my only contribution into Sage
is helping with the Russian translation of Sage Tutorial), I'm not a
mathematician (i.e. I understand almost nothing in mathematicians'
threads), but I consider the first of them ("sage-devel") as source
of some kind of news about the progress in Sage development and the
second one ("sage-support") as a generic source of help with the
particular tasks.
I'm not a Windows user either, but I'm very interested in Sage on
Windows just because this is the only way I can convince my colleagues
to try using Sage instead of M*. So It would be nice to hear some news
on Sage-on-Windows port progress in "sage-devel". And it also seems to
be pretty relevant (if one considers porting as development).
Speaking of the existing diversity of mailing lists devoted to
sage-related topics, it does confuse the newcomers. The most probable
list for them to choose is "sage-support", I guess, because its name
seems to be intuitively obvious.
And yes, it's true that some threads remain unanswered even on
"sage-devel" mailing list. This looks like a problem to me.
Summarizing all said above, I'd like to give a small list of basic
things I would like to see as a regular user.
1. I need a source of help - this means a mailing list or a forum with
a quick response (like a couple of hours from the Simon King's
example). (A good example of such list is gnuplot-info, where anyone
can get some help on the particular problem within several hours
usually).
2. I need a source of news - this means, for example, a monthly news
digest about the progress in Sage development (for Windows, MacOS,
GNU/Linux, Solaris - altogether).
3. I need a constant source of interest, if I may say so. This actually
means constantly getting some kind of information which makes me more
and more interested in using Sage and suggesting it to other people.
The role of such information for me so far played the messages about
new books on Sage, new web-sites, new functionality added, new
components' versions, a number of bugs fixed, new translations out and
so on. Everything that demonstrates that the project "breathes".
Oh, and by the way, the ability to take part in any discussion in
development thread is also a kind of "stimulating" thing. The user
begins to *think* about what does he want Sage to look like and what
way does he want Sage to be developed further.
Regards,
Vladimir
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