William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: >> On 2012-03-09 10:07, Keshav Kini wrote: >>> To elaborate: everything needed to build Sage should be somewhere in our >>> single repository, and when we produce a tarball, it should be copied >>> out into the root of the tarball. We don't fundamentally need a root >>> repo in the first place. >> >> We don't *fundamentally* need it, but it is surely nice to have. We >> discussed this as part of the development of #11073. You want to be >> able to apply patches to $SAGE_ROOT before building Sage, so before >> $SAGE_ROOT/devel/rootrepo even exists. > > Meta comment: I just want to encourage skepticism (by which I mean > "extra effort spent on constructive criticism") by Sage developers of > Keshav's proposal in this thread, partly because Keshav hasn't been > release manager. One's perspective changes dramatically when you have > to face all the problems of release manager, and realize there are > many issues you never considered. Nonetheless, I'm sure Keshav has > much to offer.
Sure, I would be the first to agree that I am totally inexperienced with this. I welcome any and all feedback. I would certainly like to know about the issues of release management I've never considered (and I too am quite sure there are a *ton* of them). Maybe at Review Days 2 someone can walk me through a release :) -Keshav ---- Join us in #sagemath on irc.freenode.net ! -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
