Re: [Math] How fast is fast enough?

2016-02-06 Thread William Barker
As a veteran of the Great Tomcat Flame Wars let me show you how this should be done. Gilles is too ignorant of even basic statistics (as shown by his post on geometric distributions) to even be working on PRNGs. As a user of C-M I would never use any class authored by Gilles relating to random num

Re: [Math] Create "development" branch?

2016-02-03 Thread William Barker
I would wait until after the TLP move for any big SCM changes. I'm not clear on what problem is trying to be solved here. Git branches are cheap, so create as many as you like for experimental changes, but I doubt the PMC would agree to release from such a branch On Wednesday, February 3, 2016, G

Re: [math] Volunteer for the new TLP PMC

2016-02-02 Thread William Barker
I'd be honored to join the new PMC. I may not be super active on the coding side, but am happy to provide oversight On Sunday, January 24, 2016, Phil Steitz wrote: > Please respond to this thread if you are a Commons Committer > interested in joining the PMC for the new TLP based on [math]. > >

Re: [math] Volunteer for the new TLP PMC

2016-01-25 Thread William Barker
On Monday, January 25, 2016, Gilles wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 13:54:51 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: > >> Please respond to this thread if you are a Commons Committer >> interested in joining the PMC for the new TLP based on [math]. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Phil >> > > I'm interested in as much as I'm

Re: [VOTE] Form a separate TLP based on [math]

2016-01-17 Thread William Barker
+1 On Saturday, January 16, 2016, Phil Steitz wrote: > The discussion has thus far been generally favorable. I would like > therefore to put the proposal to split [math] out into a separate > TLP to a VOTE. Assuming a favorable vote, we can discuss how to go > about doing it. Votes, please.