Hi, I have been cleaning up the wiki of Spam and unfortunately on occasion I am removing content that isn't spam, i.e. I removed the art page. But fortunately none of the content is lost, so please let me know if anything is missing and I will restore it. The deactivated content isn't deleted, so it will be possible to recover that info for the foreseeable future. I already did so for the art page, so sorry mhampton :)
One thing that is an issue currently is that there is no overall structure to the content, the "art" page being a good example. While some things are well organized, i.e. Sage Days, Bug Days and so on are all in their own directory structure the SPKG listings are a mess. We currently have the following pages: * http://wiki.sagemath.org/standard_packages_available_for_SAGE * http://wiki.sagemath.org/optional_packages_available_for_SAGE * http://wiki.sagemath.org/experimental_packages_available_for_SAGE * http://wiki.sagemath.org/SPKG_Audit * http://wiki.sagemath.org/Sage_Spkg_Tracking The information provided by all theses pages overlaps and all but the last two are badly outdated and link to content in the wiki I consider obsoleted by info linked from Sage_Spkg_Tracking in many cases. I would like to delete those pages like http://wiki.sagemath.org/lie for example and instead merge that info into the SPKG.txt of the lie.spkg which in turn will then appear in wiki.sagemath.org/spkg/lie. Obviously for many of the spkgs, even the standard ones, a better SPKG.txt needs to be written and I made that part of my ToDo List for SD 12. I have generally been cleaning up SPKG.txts as I go along, but I haven't gotten around to fixing them all. As some of you have experienced recently a badly formatted or incomplete SPKG.txt will get you a "needs work" during review, so just like "100% doctest coverage" I see a good SPKG.txt as mandatory to get any spkg updated. But I am also unhappy about the structure and also the name of Sage_Spkg_Tracking, i.e. it is a table, but should be a list of lists IMHO. One piece of information that could be easily added when it would be a list of lists is a textual description of up to a couple sentences for each spkg. So I propose to do the following: consolidate the above five pages into two: * one page with a listing of SPKGs called spkg/listing * one page with all the technical information called spkg/howto I would do all the work, but before I go off and do things I figured it would be worth it to request feedback. When those two pages are done I would then delete the other five pages and as things are incorporated into the to be written spkgs I would then also delete most of the current place holder wiki pages for the individual packages. There are some pages like the Axiom one which has more info than should go into the SPKG.txt of the FriCAS.spkg, so that one would survive. Thoughts? Cheers, Michael FYI - here is my ToDo list for SPKG.txt from all standard SPKGs - note that some spkgs still do not have *any* SPKG.txt at all, but those aren't listed: * ecm: "inital version" - needs fixing * genus2reduction: update missing section * gsl: slight restructuring is needed * palp - needs complete rewrite * pexpect - needs complete rewrite * polybori: small formatting issues for maintainers, Umlaut in Burcin's name * numpy: needs cleanup, "====" is used in the Changelog * ipython: Indentation for "== Dependencies ==", make "Mike Hanson" main spkg maintainer, formatting issue for "ipython-0.8.4.p0" * sphinx: trailing space at the end, dependency list needs standard format * sqlite: needs complete rewrite * singular: cleanup, add missing sections * mpfi: needs serious cleanup work * readline: add missing sections, cleanup * scipy: cleanup * quaddouble: clean up, but will be deprecated anyway * matplotlib: Changelog has some mismatched "==" vs. "===" * docutils: white space, changelog entries * pygments: white space, changelog entries * pynac: newlines, remove "@" to protect against Spam * twisted-8.1.0.p1: cleanup, missing sections * conway polynomials: needs complete rewrite * libpng: needs loads of info * cython: release history missing * libm4ri: white space issue in SPKG.txt at the bottom, "@" problems * libgpg_error: add missing info * NetworkX: add missing sections * clisp-2.46.p7: cleanup * pycrypto: complete rewrite * jinja: small stylistic issues * tachyon: cleanup --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
