On Wednesday 17 September 2008, Pierre wrote:
> > Alternatively, the forementioned patches might be interesting to you
> > since they speed up multivariate polynomial arithmetic over absolute
> > number fields dramatically. All they need are reviews ... hint, hint ;-)
>
> i know absolutely nothing about patches, reviewing, contributing to
> sage or that Mercurial thing. And believe me i would like to
> contribute (or at least when i don't have to teach and... term starts
> on monday). 

Hi there,

the 'hint, hint' was more aimed at other Sage developers who bugged me for 
this functionality for months :-)

> This was my one suggestion in the survey: improve the 
> documentation on "how to contribute", for real SVN-dummies like me.
> (There was once a mercurial tutorial on the sage mirror i use, now
> even this seems to be gone.) Note that i know how to program
> reasonably well (C++ and Python), i'm just stuck with men's singles.
> No clue about playing in a team.

We started working on the Developer's guide again, which should eventually 
address all those issues. 

> If you have any pointers, they'll be welcome. In fact i'm toying with
> the idea of applying for a "teaching-free year", like they grant you
> every few years in France, in order to be more involved with sage.

You can have a look at the current stage here:

http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mhansen/doc-sphinx/developer/.build/html/

(which is Mike Hansens copy for conversion from LaTeX to ReST/Sphinx)

We'd be very happy to hear what is unclear, missing, etc. Some parts are not 
done yet (e.g. coercion) though.

Cheers,
Martin

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