RE: [Aimmath-developers] changes

[Greg G. <gr...@ma...>]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Neil Strickland wrote:
> I think that in general we have too many branches, too many web sites, too
> many mailing lists and so on.  I would like to suggest:
> 
> 1) We should have a development branch and a stable branch and that should
>    be it.  If you make a change that is reasonable enough that other people
>    might want to try it, then it can be committed to the development branch;
>    the change can always be reversed later if necessary.  If you are not
>    ready to to commit to the development branch, then the change can just
>    stay on your own machine, the CVS system need not see it at all.
> 
>    I think that Gustav wanted a private branch as a convenient way to sync
>    his home and office machines.  It would be OK to have branches like that,
>    if they are clearly marked as such.
> 
> 2) I have removed my AIM distribution page, and replaced it with a link to
>    SourceForge.  I would suggest that other people do likewise; otherwise
>    we will end up with various sites offering incompatible versions and
>    causing horrible confusion.  It was useful to have alternatives when my
>    machine was the primary distribution source, as it was sometimes
>    unavailable; but that should hardly ever be a problem with SourceForge.
> 
>    I think that the SourceForge site currently refers to Ken Monks's site
>    for some of the installation instructions etc.  This should be changed
>    so that the SourceForge site is self contained.
> 
>    While I'm at it, I think that
>    (a) You should be able to get the stable version of AIM from
>        http://aimmath.sourceforge.net without having to go via
>        http://sourceforge.net/projects/aimmath
>    (b) The stable version should be provided as a zip file as well as a
>        tar file.
>    (c) It should be possible to access as much as possible of
>        http://aimmath.sourceforge.net without registering.  Where it is
>        possible to log in as a guest, the web site should make this as
>        obvious as possible.
> 
> 3) I think we only need two mailing lists/discussion forums: one for people
>    who are willing to read source code, and one for people who are not.  I
>    don't think that any finer subdivisions are useful in practice.
> 
> Let me know what you think.

I agree with all the above.

BTW Thanks Gustav and/or Neil for getting the list back up.

  Regards,
  Greg