Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: FriCAS

[Ralf Hemmecke]

Hi,

I must say, I don't like all this discussion about patches sent to the 
list or not. It is not about agreeing or not agreeing to the Axiom 
project goals. (BTW, what is the right way to come from 
http://www.axiom-developer.org to a page that describes these goals?)

Note that it took so long until we finally arrived at Silver being the 
Gold-to-be and living in sourceforge axiom trunk. That we agreed on 
Silver=trunk appeared only recently. From then on patches can be against 
the latest trunk. (I never understood why it should be patches against 
Gold.)

Anyway, I believe (and I am probably right) that the branching (which 
started with build-improvements and then wh-sandbox) without sending 
patches (against gold) to the list was because these patches would 
disappear into a (formerly hidden gold-to-be). Up to the day when Tim 
showed his gold-to-be, everyone had to go through the mailing list and 
apply the patches to gold himself to arrive at (nearly) the same version 
that Tim did not want to show. A complete waste of time.

Now gold-to-be=silver=trunk is in the open and developer knows about the 
hottest and latest development. That is good. In my eyes sending patches 
is about to begin. Gaby is preparing. But note, we had no open silver 
(but rather two or three unofficial ones). This chaos has stopped me 
from actually opening a doc-improvements branch. And I will not start 
contributing any code until I see a development model I understand and 
which seems efficient to me.

Sure, it's my decision. But I consider myself new and unexperienced to 
big open source projects. It is really not easy to understand what is 
going on with Axiom. Maybe some people think that it is completely clear 
to every one on the list what it means to "send a diff -Naur patch". 
Nice attitude, but it doesn't decrease the hurdle for new contributors.

Hey guys, try to work together.

Ralf