Re: [sage-support] Re: Those cookies again...

2010-08-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 08/28/10 05:49 AM, Jason Grout wrote: On 8/27/10 8:03 AM, kcrisman wrote: On Aug 27, 7:37 am, Jason Groutjason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: On 8/21/10 9:12 PM, kcrisman wrote: I don't know that we've had as many people complaining about cookies recently. Maybe this has been fixed.

Re: [sage-support] Re: Those cookies again...

2010-08-28 Thread Tim Joseph Dumol
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: On 08/28/10 05:49 AM, Jason Grout wrote: On 8/27/10 8:03 AM, kcrisman wrote: On Aug 27, 7:37 am, Jason Groutjason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: On 8/21/10 9:12 PM, kcrisman wrote: I don't know that we've had

Re: [sage-support] Re: Those cookies again...

2010-08-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 08/28/10 12:27 PM, Tim Joseph Dumol wrote: The invalid HTML is orthogonal to this issue and is merely a typo. The label tag merely affects form display semantics and does not have anything to do regarding cookies. Frankly, even http://google.com has invalid HTML:

Re: [sage-support] Re: Those cookies again...

2010-08-28 Thread Tim Joseph Dumol
A fix is presented at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9832. On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: On 08/28/10 12:27 PM, Tim Joseph Dumol wrote: The invalid HTML is orthogonal to this issue and is merely a typo. The label  tag merely affects

[sage-support] Re: Those cookies again...

2010-08-28 Thread Jason Grout
On 8/28/10 6:27 AM, Tim Joseph Dumol wrote: On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Dr. David Kirkby It's really anyone's guess. But clearly people should be able to create accounts before or after they try to log in. And people are indeed able to do so. Yes, I should point out that an

[sage-support] Re: Those cookies again...

2010-08-27 Thread Jason Grout
On 8/21/10 9:12 PM, kcrisman wrote: I don't know that we've had as many people complaining about cookies recently. Maybe this has been fixed. Unfortunately, we just upgraded our campus server to 4.3 (the latest VMWare image that we hadn't heard problems about) and apparently it is hexed by the

[sage-support] Re: Those cookies again...

2010-08-27 Thread kcrisman
On Aug 27, 7:37 am, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: On 8/21/10 9:12 PM, kcrisman wrote: I don't know that we've had as many people complaining about cookies recently.  Maybe this has been fixed. Unfortunately, we just upgraded our campus server to 4.3 (the latest VMWare

Re: [sage-support] Re: Those cookies again...

2010-08-27 Thread Tim Joseph Dumol
Hi, I've created a ticket addressing this issue at (#9822 http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9822) and a patch in an attempt to fix it. I'm not sure whether it works though, as I don't have access to Safari. Can either of you try it out? On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:03 PM, kcrisman

[sage-support] Re: Those cookies again...

2010-08-27 Thread Jason Grout
On 8/27/10 8:03 AM, kcrisman wrote: On Aug 27, 7:37 am, Jason Groutjason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: On 8/21/10 9:12 PM, kcrisman wrote: I don't know that we've had as many people complaining about cookies recently. Maybe this has been fixed. Unfortunately, we just upgraded our campus

Re: [sage-support] Re: Those cookies again...

2010-08-24 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 08/23/10 04:20 PM, kcrisman wrote: Well, in general it seems to me that most Sage bugs come from things/ functionality that didn't exist before, and once they exist people want to start using them. Well, there are an alful lot of open-bugs in trac. Some have been open a very long time.

[sage-support] Re: Those cookies again...

2010-08-23 Thread Simon King
Hi All! Shouldn't this discussion better go to sage-devel? On 22 Aug., 22:01, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: ... http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0006/ Quoting from this source: In general, only the N-1 release will be under active maintenance at any time. That is,

[sage-support] Re: Those cookies again...

2010-08-23 Thread Simon King
PS: On 23 Aug., 12:55, Simon King simon.k...@nuigalway.ie wrote: ... My impression is that the Sage development process is quite far from that way of thinking. ... or perhaps it is not so much the way of thinking? I would expect that Python has a lot more person power than Sage. How many

[sage-support] Re: Those cookies again...

2010-08-23 Thread kcrisman
Wow, I really didn't expect to open this discussion with that post. I expect Sage upgrades will slip further down your system admin's priority list if they are causing him problems. Though he's actually quite Sage-friendly, and sounds like he'll do it. The only issue was I am really

[sage-support] Re: Those cookies again...

2010-08-22 Thread Simon King
On 22 Aug., 17:47, Jeff Post j_p...@pacbell.net wrote: On Sunday 22 August 2010 08:07, Mike Witt wrote: Having said this, I can't help but wonder what possible motivation there could be, among developers, to do something like a bug fix release? Professionalism? Pride in their work?

[sage-support] Re: Those cookies again...

2010-08-22 Thread Nathann Cohen
Hello ! Making bug-fix releases is an essential part of professional software development. Jeff is right - it is the professional thing to do. Unfortunately, most Sage developers do not have a background in software engineering, so do not appreciate that. I know I am just handing the