Dear all, On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Richard B. Kreckel wrote:
Why not? I could, for instance, explain what the difficulties were with Sasaki-Murao for somebody interested to pick up the work. Or, implementation ideas could be layed out.
Wait! This sounds more and more like a Wiki, doesn't it? Or maybe this is going too far. What do other people think?
A Wiki could certainly be interesting as it could be a very low-threshold way of discussing things. I sometimes come at http://senseis.xmp.net and the nice thing is that there are both sections that contain reference material and section where free discussion is going on. I certainly think that some ideas that now only exist in my head would be more readily discussed on a wiki than on the mailing list. Besides that, nobody is likely to look at mailing list discussions anymore if they are a bit old. It could be sort of like the coffee-machine discussions that would occur if the GiNaC community was not scattered all over the world. On the other hand, it could well be that the GiNaC community is a bit small to support a Wiki. I don't know. Best, Chris