Re: [Gneuralnetwork] Help wanted: a repository for Gneural Network

[Kiril Vladimiroff]

Okay, this does make sense. It will be easier for you to experiment until 
settle down on particular design decisions and features you want for 1.0.0.

However, it also does make sense to release the code in a pre-release/alpha/
beta/feature-freeze/you-name-it state in order to give an opportunity for the 
community to review, fix and optimize right before 1.0.0 release. I think this 
will lead to a more mature and stable first release.

How do you feel about such middle ground?

On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 10:39:16 AM EET Jean Michel Sellier wrote:
> Hi Kiril,
> 
> Many thanks for your email. I understand your concern, this is also a
> concern of mine. The only reason why there is not a git repository yet is
> because the code is not mature enough for community collaborations. It is
> evolving too rapidly and the best thing to do would be to wait until we
> have a stable version (1.0.0, and by stable I mean a code that is not going
> to change drastically after that but will be ready for fixes and inclusion
> of new methods). More than being helpful, putting the sources on a repo now
> would make the community very confused as the code is changing on an hour
> basis..
> 
> In any case, this doesn't stop collaborations since there are already many
> of them happening right now but by email (again, only because the code is
> not at its stable version). As soon as Gneural Network will have its
> structure very well defined, and therefore ready for community development,
> of course there will be a git repository. Hopefully, this will happen in
> less than a month. Please, bare in mind that there is A LOT going on right
> now behind the scene, it is a lot of work being developed at very rapid
> rate and I am doing my best to make it happen quickly. Actually, I can't
> wait for you guys to have this first stable version on a git repo!
> 
> Please, don't get me wrong. I am very happy about your comment. It shows
> interest from you and this community and this is VERY encouraging and
> pushing me to release version 1.0.0 as soon as I can! ;)
> 
> JM
> 
> 2016-03-23 10:18 GMT+01:00 Kiril Vladimiroff <address@hidden>:
> > Hi Jean,
> > 
> > I don't see how it would help the development of gneuralnetwork and its
> > community. There are currently several patches being sent as attachments
> > working only under the assumption that the code released in 0.5.0 hasn't
> > changed since then. So, version controlling tar and gzip files instead of
> > source code is not only an obstacle for the community, but for the
> > maintainers
> > making every next patch harder to apply than the previous one.
> > 
> > Could you elaborate more on why has this decision been taken?
> > 
> > Best,
> > Kiril
> > 
> > On Monday, March 21, 2016 4:43:27 PM EET Jean Michel Sellier wrote:
> > > Hi Giuseppe,
> > > 
> > > Many thanks for your comment. The git repository is under development
> > > for
> > > now. We do not plan to use it until we get to version 1.0.0 of the code.
> > 
> > It
> > 
> > > will be useful only at that point and, of course, we will release the
> > > exploded tarball once the version will be ready.
> > > 
> > > Thanks again,
> > > 
> > > JM
> > > 
> > > 2016-03-21 16:34 GMT+01:00 Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden>:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I have checked the git repository and it contains the tarball of the
> > > > releases.  This is not the way to use git, but the exploded files
> > > > should be added.  Adding the tarballs makes git quite useless.
> > > > 
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Giuseppe
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Jean Michel Sellier, Ph.D., M.Sc.
> > > 
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> > > 
> > > www.gnu.org/software/archimedes
> > > 
> > > www.gnu.org/software/nano-archimedes
> > > 
> > > www.gnu.org/software/gneuralnetwork
> > > 
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Archimedes
> 
> --
> Jean Michel Sellier, Ph.D., M.Sc.
> 
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> 
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> 
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> 
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