Re: Support of log10?

[Peng Yu]

On 6/25/21, Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 01:24:48PM -0500, Peng Yu wrote:
>> > We have considered it, and when we last looked, Github was missing some
>> > features that we find useful on SF.
>>
>> What features are missing?
>
> Please refer to our mailing list archives here:
> https://sourceforge.net/p/gawkextlib/mailman/search/?q=github

Which specific message message does it mention the actual features
that SF can do that github can not do? The first message seems already
mentioned some reasons why it should be migrated to GH.

>> My personal feeling is that SF is slow, not obvious to find info, plus
>> it has annoy ads.
>
> My personal feeling is that I have a day job and don't have time to
> waste moving projects around for no good reason.

I've already mentioned the reasons. It is not no good reason, it is
just that you may not have time.

>> If you search "moving from github to sourceforge", I only see
>> mirgrating from sourceforge to github, instead of the other way
>> around. I think this is a good reason people tends to move away from
>> sf to github.
>
> I rarely follow the crowd; this philosophy has served me well in life.

The point is not to following the crawd. The point is to corroborate
my conclusion that GH is better than SF.

>> > Git is git, after all.  Just clone it and
>> > work
>> > up a patch.
>
> This is the most important part of my message, yet you chose to ignore it.
> If you'd like to contribute to the gawk community, please develop
> a shared library to implement the functions you think are useful.
>
> It is not helpful to criticize what other people are doing.

I am just providing my suggestion and what can be improved. I am not
gawk maintainer after all. I suppose whoever takes the role of
maintainer would like to do the job, therefore would be willing to
listen to suggestions.

> If you don't
> like the situation, please step up and try to improve it. We all do this
> as volunteers. And if you really think github is superior, you are welcome
> to do the work to migrate it there and then show us why it's better.

I don't understand why migrating it is such a big deal. It has already
been done for gawk. But it does not survive unless it is done
officially by the gawk maintainer.

https://github.com/gvlx/gawk

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Regards,
Peng