RE: [Aimmath-developers] Re: Sourceforge messages

[Gustav W D. <gw...@yo...>]

Dear Greg,

thank you for offering to add the version strings.

I am looking forward to reading your cvs documentation. I think a good place
to put it would be the DocManager on SourceForge. You have privileges to
place and edit documentation there (in fact I have given all of us this
privilege). I am glad that you volunteer to do this because I am very busy
at the moment and in any case not really qualified.

> For GAP, we have the following etiquette w.r.t. committing changes.
> Elementary changes like typos. and obvious bug fixes just commit.
> More substantial changes that may be controversial, submit a message
> with PROPOSAL in the header. If noone objects within 3 days one then
> takes that as an acceptance and the proposer may commit the changes.
> Maybe, with just 4 of us (at the moment) that time period should be a
> little longer, but does such a system seem acceptable?

I think that is very appropriate.

> A few months back, I sent some info. on what I called a Trig package.
> I'm thinking that I could add that into the distribution, along with
> sample quiz files. In fact, I think Neil's sample quiz files could also
> be included on Sourceforge.

I don't think that sample question files should go into cvs because they do
not really be developed by us as a team. Rather the important thing is that
they should be easily accessible by the non-developers. Also non-developers
should be able to easily submit their examples. I have however no bright
idea of how to implement this exactly.

> We should think about a standard directory for
> these: example perhaps with subdirectories. This brings up another idea.
> Perhaps we could have some notion of a ROOT path for includes. Let's
> say at the AIM (= ROOT) level we have directories:
>
>   AIM/
>      dev/    # information etc. useful for developers, howtos etc.
>      etc/    # scripts for packaging etc.
>      example/# sample quiz files
>      images/ # not present at Sourceforge
>      WEB_INF/
>
> Does that sound reasonable.
Reasonable yes, but not really necessary given my comments above.

Regards,

Gustav