[Axiom-developer] Re: a meta name for axiom, open.axiom, fricas

[Martin Rubey]

root <address@hidden> writes:

> >> >> Status: fix proposed => closed 
> >> >> 
> >> >> Strictly speaking, Axiom does not run on Windows
> >> >> so this isn't a bug but a feature request.
> >> >
> >> >Tim, I guess with Axiom you mean your project.  If this is indeed the 
> >> >case,
> >> >please do not close bugs, just because they are fixed (in one sense or the
> >> >other) in this project - rather make the status "fix-proposed".  I would
> >> >like to have IssueTracker used as a common database of bugs.
> >> 
> >> Clearly when the bug says Axiom it applies to the Axiom project.
> >
> >This is your definition.  From a legal standpoint you may be right.  But I 
> >must
> >say that it complicates thing enormously if I have to replace "axiom" with
> >"axiom, open-axiom, fricas" in every bug report.
> 
> It appears that this already exists because you can "close" a bug in 
> Axiom or Fricas, right?

I did not close a single bug, except it was fixed in all three projects.

> The meta-name isn't Axiom and I will continue to act upon anything that
> says its an "Axiom" bug because it applies to the Axiom project. Just
> like Waldek will act upon anything that says its a "Fricas" bug because
> it applies to the Fricas project.

You are being very cooperative.

> The fact that the Axiom project forked does not mean that the name
> is suddenly generic. If, in the future, Fricas forks four times are
> they all called Fricas?

Of course not. I'd call them all axiom.

Martin