Re: [Axiom-developer] Which source distributions should we list?

[Bill Page]

Quoting C Y <address@hidden>:

> ... 
> 5.  The subversion branches I assume are all still active, or should
> the daly branch be removed now that Git is coming online?

Tim is currently mirror his new git-based "Axiom Silver" in the "daly"
SVN branch on SourceForge for those people not motivated to
access the git repository. 

> Also, is hersen-algebra-improvements still in use?  Does it contain
> any work not present in other branches?

As far as I know Anthony Hersen is not longer working on the the
algebra code improvement project. Martin, do you know for sure?

> 6.  Darcs and Mercurial obviously will stay.  (I hadn't noticed the
> Dspace work - is that an actual Dspace mirror or code for working
> with it?)

The DSpace repository is a direct mirror of the DSpace project
CVS repository up to the time that they moved to SVN at about
release 1.4. Currently I did not check-in any modifications with
which I have been experimenting. Originally I had in mind that
it might be of some use to create a document repository for Axiom
reference material. But so far I think the 'references' section that
we have on the Axiom portal (plone) site is sufficient - especially
when taken together with the bibliography. I am also working on
DSpace in another project completely unrelated to Axiom, so
I do have some experience with it. 

> I know "BeBold" is the policy but on a page that reflects project
> wide direction information like this I want to be sure I have the
> state of things correct before I (say) delete all the old arch
> references. 

Go ahead, be bold. It necessary we can always revert or bring
forward old material from the history maintained in the Zope
database (currently the revision history is maintained for at
least one month). 

> Adding the Git references and instructions is obvious, but I also
> feel this page should only point the readers to the active branches,
> perhaps with links in an Archive section to no-longer-actively-
> developed branches that have improvements not folded back in. 

Feel free to create a "Development Archive" page of you wish. 

>  Because this is a "representative" page of the Axiom project,
> I would like to get feedback on what is needed. 

Thanks, Cliff. 

Regards,
Bill Page.