Re: [sage-release] Sage 8.8.rc1 released

2019-06-14 Thread E. Madison Bray
This ticket has also been languishing for no particular reason: https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/27724 It was previously looked upon favorably: It is a patch to GAP that has already been accepted upstream by the GAP developers. For a time it was only held up for me to update the patch to the

Re: [sage-release] Sage 8.8.rc1 released

2019-06-14 Thread Dima Pasechnik
Can we please get https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/27950 in this release? It's docs on how to run Sage in conda, we are getting questions on it because our instructions are old, and cause at the moment conda needs a workaround. On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 7:40 AM Volker Braun wrote: > > As always,

Re: [sage-release] Sage 8.8.rc1 released

2019-06-14 Thread E. Madison Bray
Perhaps we could try it anyways. Is there any concrete reason this is the "end of a release cycle"? It's not my fault if my ticket goes unreviewed for weeks and then suddenly it's just seemingly arbitrarily the end of the release cycle that wasn't communicated. On Fri, Jun 14, 2019, 13:30 Volker

Re: [sage-release] Sage 8.8.rc1 released

2019-06-14 Thread Volker Braun
I reviewed the ticket but rather not merge it at the last minute. Imho its quite possible that it breaks something on lesser-used platforms so we should merge it at the beginning of a release cycle, not the end. On Friday, June 14, 2019 at 10:59:37 AM UTC+2, E. Madison Bray wrote: > > Could

Re: [sage-release] Sage 8.8.rc1 released

2019-06-14 Thread E. Madison Bray
(Accidentally sent before completing the message) Could somebody please review the following ticket: https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/27721 It has been stalled for weeks now for no good reason other than, I presume, lack of availability for someone to review it. I would really like this ticket

Re: [sage-release] Sage 8.8.rc1 released

2019-06-14 Thread E. Madison Bray
Could somebody please review the following ticket: https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/27721 It has been stalled for weeks now for no good reason other than, I presume, lack of availability for someone to review it. I would really like this ticket to be resolved and merged before making an 8.8