Re: Feedback, ideas, discussion: tracking patches, discussions, bugs.

[ng0]

Hi,

Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> writes:

> I hope this will be a topic in Rennes though I won't be there.

I won't be there as well, it's currently too expensive for me.

> Savannah is nice but limited in scope (and notably does not provide
> 100% uptime). 
>
> The E-mail patch system is archaic and is certainly noisy. I think we
> should have an additional system that is more friendly. I use github a
> lot to collaborate, and while it is not acceptable to a GNU project
> (mostly because it is closed source), it certainly proves to have good
> functionality and improves collaboration.
>
> Also, I think reviewers should become mentors - i.e., help rather than
> be only critical. The current system is unfriendly, though it appears
> to be hard to appreciate that problem from the 'inside'. The main
> problem appears to be we have too few reviewers to make them
> mentors...
>
> I am not contributing my work as it stands. Maybe my contributions do
> not matter in the greater scheme of things - but, believe me, I am not
> happy about it. I just updated a critical bug in OpenBLAS and bumped
> scipy and numpy in production. Someone else will have to do that work
> over again.
>
> Maybe some people here can form a working group and come up with
> recommendations?

I'd be happy to join or work in such a group.

> Pj.

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