#16030: Use "git trac" in the developer guide
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Reporter: vbraun | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_info
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-6.2
Component: documentation | Resolution:
Keywords: | Merged in:
Authors: Volker Braun | Reviewers: Ralf Stephan
Report Upstream: N/A | Work issues:
Branch: | Commit:
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Comment (by kcrisman):
> I've worked on the dev scripts a lot myself, so if anything I'm
dismissing my work.
Fair enough, I suspected this.
>Also, we had a quick informal survey at the last sage days and most
developers don't use the dev scripts. And if so mostly for the feature to
import old patches. So realistically the dev scripts won't be maintained
or improved. And there are some really annoying bugs in them that imho
already make the initial setup already more painful than just installing
git (which is nowadays installed by default in most distros and part of
XCode).
>
> Of course if you want to further work on the dev scripts then thats fine
with me. And/or post to sage-devel to get a discussion going about our
roadmap...
It's not so much about further work, as making sure there is SOME low bar
to entry. I'm not worried about current developers; hardly any of them
were using `hg_sage` toward the end either, but there are always people
who need that level of entry. "Every user a developer" is more what I'm
thinking, even though of course that is never true in practice. If "git
trac" ends up being very easy to use, that's fine; the current
instructions on this ticket looked rather overwhelming, but perhaps
reorganization of that section would change that impression?
With that in mind, before I open a discussion, I guess I'm curious what
your roadmap actually is.
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