Minutes January 12 2022 - math-comp/math-comp GitHub Wiki
Participants: Reynald, Assia, Christian, Cyril, Enrico, Karl, Kazuhiko, Pierre, Yves
- Discuss the release process and timing in light of the changed Coq
and Coq Platform release processes. See
CEP 52
and the discussion at
coq-community/reglang#40
- timing release for the coq/mathcomp/platform
- CD: we want to release before the platform
- KP: pointing at the faster pace that would imply
- ET (> CD): should we synchronize with the Coq release?
- CD: release the known working version or make a release for the purpose of the platform?
- ET: how painful is it to release MathComp?
- CD: release process not that bad (3 hours with two people), the difficult part is cleaning the milestone
- ET: force release put pressure on the users
- KP: waiting also put pressure
- CD: too long release cycle forces users to wait for their changes to appear and forces them to keep a copy
- YB: is it just a matter of deciding at each release or to have a general rule?
- ET: it depends on the release
- CD: the previous version of MathComp would still be working
- ET: communication the intent asap could be enough
- AM: how to communicate?
- KP: sync with the Coq release
- YB: release candidate period for Coq?
- KP: in general, one month
- CC will be one of the release manager for the next release
- CC: the current changelog is quite short, not sure these things are blocking
- YB: we should follow a short release policy
- ET/CC: minor release (in content) major release (in version number) set for wednesday next week
- Providing contribution perspectives to MathComp users and improving
the organization maintenance.
See Issue 831
- KP: already discussed by Theo and CC in previous meeting, interested in making users use the templates in coq-community, mathcomp is an organization in itself
- CC: ways to be more inviting for contributors, guide in writing
- KP: goals is to make contributions easier
- AM: we are lacking man-power and are willing to attract contributors, mathcomp's github was created before coq-community
- KP: coq-community has laxer standards, we want to have a big archive for publicity
- CC: most projects in the mathcomp hierarchy should be in coq-community, maybe even mathcomp, have coqbot do merges?
- ET: do all projects have webpages?
- KP: we do not have yet good automation for this
- CD: the mathcomp organization is big enough to stand alone
- KP: no barrier to hold the mathcomp webpage on coq-community
- CD: coq-community provides help to do updates, it provides examples and templates
- KP: new templates on the way
- AM: discuss next week if we want to migrate some projects
- YB: there is a taxonomy of projects (linked to a paper, active maintenance or not)
- KP: invite Theo or KP to work on the templates
- number notations for rat, int,
ring(Pierre (I'll may be 10 to 15 minutes late))- PR: to be able to write 42 instead of 42%:R
- ET: should be doable in the vernacular
- PR: only for rat, for ring we need ocaml
- rescheduled to the next meeting