[Axiom-developer] Re: [fricas-devel] Re: use of `fix proposed'

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Martin Rubey wrote:

| 
| Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden> writes:
| 
| > Hi,
| > 
| >   I would suggest to use `fix proposed' on the Axiom Wiki only when
| > a patch is effectly proposed as an attachment in the tracker, as
| > opposed to the mere fact that the bug is fixed in an Axiom flavor.
| > That would help reduce confusion.
| 
| Oh, sorry, I overlooked this mail.  I think that's a good suggestion, although
| it does not make me happy, because it may be a lot of work to do so.

It may be a lot of work, when you do effectively propose a fix -- not
just a comment that it is fixed somewhere.  So, you could still
maintain the level of work you're doing now by just saying it is fixed
somewhere, without chaning to `fix proposed'.

| In fact,
| it only makes sense where the code bases are still close enough (i.e., the
| algebra, I guess)
| 
| How about splitting status fix proposed into
| 
| 1) fix proposed                              (i.e, patch attached)
| 2) fixed in one of OpenAxiom, FriCAS, Axiom  (a shorter name would be needed 
here)
| 
| ?

That sounds good.

-- Gaby