Actually, various specific questions could get into long winded
threads, but I have not seen this happen on the maxima list. I would
rather have more related questions brought up on the list, than
fewer. More often than not, I find useful information when I was not
looking for it.
Just my two cents!
-sen
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Vadim wrote:
> 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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