RE: [Aimmath-developers] changes

[Gustav W D. <gu...@ma...>]

Neil wrote:

> 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;

I strongly agree with this. Please commit to the development branch as soon
as you have
something that appears to work.

On the day of the beta release of AiM 3.0 I will merge the develop_2_1
branch back to the HEAD.
I propose that from then on we do development work on HEAD. I think I
created a lot of unnecessary
confusion by creating the development branch.

>    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.

Yes, I agree. I will do this in time for the release of AiM 3.0 beta

>    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

SourceForge doesn't like that. They want all file releases to go through
their file release system and I don't think that is a big problem.

>    (b) The stable version should be provided as a zip file as well as a
>        tar file.

Why? Are there unzippers that can't open tar.gz files?

>    (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.

I agree. Currently all of aimmath.sourceforge.net can be accessed without
registering and I think we should keep it that way.

> 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.

I think you are right. So should we have a "User's Forum" and a "Developer's
Forum"?

I think that with the release of AiM 3.0 we should retire the JISC mailing
list, but keep a link to its archive on the aimmath.sourceforge site (thanks
for Chris for this suggestion).

Gustav