NumFOCUS

Application for NumFOCUS affiliation of SageMath

sage-devel post Jan 13, 2024 with draft application, links to previous discussions.

Next target date: Apr 15, 2024

Integration with the existing ecosystem of NumFOCUS tools

NumFOCUS Sponsored Projects

The sponsored projects IPython, Jupyter, Matplotlib, NetworkX, NumPy, SciPy, SymPy are dependencies of SageMath. Additionally, volunteers maintain conda-forge packaging of SageMath.

NumFOCUS Affiliated Projects

The affiliated projects CVXPY, Cython, igraph are dependencies of SageMath.

Spack, package manager for HPC systems:

• Integration with Spack could improve the reach of SageMath to use on HPC systems, although viable alternatives such as conda-forge exist.
• Using Spack Packages as an upstream for SageMath's dependencies:
  • Add system package information files SAGE_ROOT/build/pkgs/*/distros/spack.txt
  • Add portability tests for building in Spack environments, e.g. based on spack containerize
• Downstream packaging of SageMath in Spack Packages: Various dependencies of SageMath already exist but are not up to date (e.g. gmp, suite-sparse and are marked as "looking for a maintainer".

Additional requirements for Sponsored Project status

TBD