[sage-devel] Re: Sage component manuals

2009-09-29 Thread Marshall Hampton
So far that looks like a real improvement! I end up making my own bookmarks for useful but hard to find wiki pages, although I think in some cases I tried to edit the front page to put them there. Like http://wiki.sagemath.org/combinat/HelpOnTheDoc and http://wiki.sagemath.org/DanDrake/JustEn

[sage-devel] Re: Sage component manuals

2009-09-28 Thread kcrisman
On Sep 28, 2:53 pm, Pat LeSmithe wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Pat LeSmithe wrote: > >  * Re-organize the Sage wiki front page?  For example: > > There's a very early version at > > http://wiki.sagemath.org/NewFrontPage What a massive improvement in organization this would be! T

[sage-devel] Re: Sage component manuals

2009-09-28 Thread Pat LeSmithe
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Pat LeSmithe wrote: > * Re-organize the Sage wiki front page? For example: There's a very early version at http://wiki.sagemath.org/NewFrontPage Feel free to make suggestions and changes to this page or to any of http://wiki.sagemath.org/SageSupportCenter h

[sage-devel] Re: Sage component manuals

2009-09-27 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Pat LeSmithe wrote: > > > >> On related notes, should we >> >>  * Re-organize the Sage wiki front page?  For example: >> >>   + Make it easier for a newcomer, developer or user, to find what they >

[sage-devel] Re: Sage component manuals

2009-09-26 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi, On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Pat LeSmithe wrote: > On related notes, should we > > * Re-organize the Sage wiki front page? For example: > > + Make it easier for a newcomer, developer or user, to find what they > want. Yes. Any volunteers? > + Put more recent and/or useful pa

[sage-devel] Re: Sage component manuals

2009-09-26 Thread Pat LeSmithe
Kwankyu wrote: > I think that if Sage has a component as a part of it, we should at > least tell the user how to use the component. Currently the user is > told to ask Google about it. Here I mean those components intended for > end users. . How about at least including links to [sufficiently] o

[sage-devel] Re: Sage component manuals

2009-09-26 Thread kcrisman
On Sep 26, 2:55 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Nick Alexander wrote: > > And at this point, which sage component doesn't have its documentation > > on the web -- latest version, everything maintained upstream? > > Many important Sage users don't have web access all

[sage-devel] Re: Sage component manuals

2009-09-26 Thread Kwankyu
Hi, I think that if Sage has a component as a part of it, we should at least tell the user how to use the component. Currently the user is told to ask Google about it. Here I mean those components intended for end users. . Kwankyu --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to

[sage-devel] Re: Sage component manuals

2009-09-26 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Nick Alexander wrote: > And at this point, which sage component doesn't have its documentation > on the web -- latest version, everything maintained upstream? Many important Sage users don't have web access all the time. -- William --~--~-~--~~

[sage-devel] Re: Sage component manuals

2009-09-26 Thread Nick Alexander
On 26-Sep-09, at 12:35 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > > On Sep 25, 2009, at 8:31 PM, Kwankyu wrote: > >>> It is totally feasible. It hasn't happened only because nobody has >>> done it. I think the only good reasonable longterm way to do this >>> would be to modify the spkg-install for each and

[sage-devel] Re: Sage component manuals

2009-09-26 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Sep 26, 2009, at 3:59 AM, Nick Alexander wrote: > On 26-Sep-09, at 12:35 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > >> >> On Sep 25, 2009, at 8:31 PM, Kwankyu wrote: >> It is totally feasible. It hasn't happened only because nobody has done it. I think the only good reasonable longterm way to d

[sage-devel] Re: Sage component manuals

2009-09-26 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Sep 25, 2009, at 8:31 PM, Kwankyu wrote: >> It is totally feasible. It hasn't happened only because nobody has >> done it. I think the only good reasonable longterm way to do this >> would be to modify the spkg-install for each and every package so >> that >> it installs documentation for

[sage-devel] Re: Sage component manuals

2009-09-26 Thread John Cremona
> > And at this point, which sage component doesn't have its documentation > on the web -- latest version, everything maintained upstream? > eclib, for a start John --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To u

[sage-devel] Re: Sage component manuals

2009-09-25 Thread Kwankyu
> > It is totally feasible.  It hasn't happened only because nobody has > done it.   I think the only good reasonable longterm way to do this > would be to modify the spkg-install for each and every package so that > it installs documentation for that package into > $SAGE_LOCAL/doc/pkgname.   This

[sage-devel] Re: Sage component manuals

2009-09-25 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Kwankyu wrote: > > Hi, > > I thought of this idea. How about including the manuals (and/or > tutorials and/or references) of all (perhaps not all but almost all) > the (enduser) components of Sage into Sage? Or maintain a repository > site of all the manuals such