From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Contributing to Emacs Calc Documentation and improving the Integration Algorithm Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 12:41:50 -0700 Organization: Stonehenge Consulting Services; Portland, Oregon, USA Message-ID: <86a7s6fkox.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1528400452 23948 195.159.176.226 (7 Jun 2018 19:40:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 19:40:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (berkeley-unix) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 07 21:40:48 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fR0m8-00069K-5J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 21:40:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59926 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fR0oF-0006he-5O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 15:42:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35965) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fR0nK-0006el-0p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 15:42:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fR0nG-0001jb-0T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 15:42:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=51643 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fR0nF-0001do-Oq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 15:41:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fR0l6-000590-K3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 21:39:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org x-mayan-date: Long count = 13.0.5.9.14; tzolkin = 9 Ix; haab = 7 Zotz Cancel-Lock: sha1:KWzhl6zOaLX+XbUJNNl0eeT6REg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:226099 Archived-At: >>>>> "siraben" == siraben writes: siraben> I've noticed that development on the Emacs Calc has stalled siraben> recently. /lisp/calc shows no commits since January 1 2018, which was siraben> a copyright year update. I would like to contribute documentation to siraben> many of the undocumented functions, and work on the symbolic siraben> integration algorithm which, despite its complexity, still has great siraben> difficulty with integration by parts and by substitution. It would be great to get calc better, stronger, faster. I was around during the early development (my name's even in the docs for a couple of things), but it seems not to have gotten a lot of attention lately. If you need a second pair of eyes on the doc changes, I'm happy to help. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Perl/Unix/Dart consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. Still trying to think of something clever for the fourth line of this .sig