Stavros is a Maxima developer who asked other Maxima developers for specific
advice related to his work on Maxima. As a Maxima developer, I found his
question and the ensuing discussion informative, useful, and entirely
appropriate for this list.
Even if it weren't, until and unless people start using this list to discuss
topics like Britney Spears' hairdo, let us respect each other's time and not
clutter the list with unnecessary and confrontational "topic police"
messages, if I may respectfully suggest.
Viktor
-----Original Message-----
From: maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu [mailto:maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu]
On Behalf Of Vadim
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 12:10 PM
To: Stavros Macrakis
Cc: Maxima Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Maxima] CVS help
Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> On 4/30/07, Vadim <vadim at vkonovalov.ru> wrote:
>
>>
>> Discuss all offtopic outside the list!
>>
>
> "Off topic"??
exactly. CVS and MAXIMA are way different things.
I appreciate your development and I respect the work on maxima people
already done.
And I do take into account the fact that I personally did nothing useful
to Maxima (yet?), so my opinion could be of low value to the people.
But you do should find your CVS answers elsewhere: SF site has good
documentation on this, and you can contact your colleagues directly.
I expect maxima discussion on maxima list.
With really large respect,
Vadim.
>
> Though I agree that CVS issues are *developer* and not *user* issues, the
> decision was made a long time ago not to have separate lists for the two
> groups. That decision could be revisited, but I would appreciate not
> being
> flamed for using the mailing list as it is currently constituted.
>
> I am trying to fix bugs and add functionality to Maxima, and am
> struggling
> with very frustrating CVS issues in doing that. I have spent hours
> trying
> to understand the CVS documentation and not succeeded. Clearly other
> developers on this list have solved their CVS issues, and I would
> appreciate
> their help in this. I would hope that I can count on my colleagues on the
> Maxima list to help me with this just as I would count on colleagues in a
> co-located work group.
>
> -s
>
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