[Coin-discuss] [BCP] Manual

[Stephan Hennig]

Ted Ralphs schrieb:

> My apologies for the outdated documentation. This is a problem 
> throughout the repository. Since we are all working on a volunteer basis 
> and have to carefully justify the time we devote to this project, it's 
> difficult to keep up.

I didn't want to give you a negative feedback. Your work is great!


> A further complicating factor is that we are 
> currently devoting much of our energies to creating a non-profit 
> corporation so that we can move hosting from IBM to INFORMS, giving us 
> more flexibility and the ability to begin raising money that could to 
> fund such things as improved documentation in the future. Please be 
> assured that better documentation is on the list on things to do, but it 
> may be a while. In the meantime, I would be happy to patch the manual
> with any fixes you'd be willing to write and submit. In theory, the 
> purpose of open source documentation is to allow the user community to 
> improve it.

You're right. As I'm fascinated by COIN I hope I can stay on using it
after finishing my diploma thesis. If that's the case I would definitely
like to contribute. But at the moment it's a matter of time.


> In the meantime, I suggest you take advantage of other resources, such 
> as the slides I put together for the COIN tutorial at the most recent 
> ISMP and the COIN tutorial page at Lehigh (sagan.ie.lehigh.edu/coin). In 
> particular, Matt Galati put a lot of effort into creating a simple 
> example of how to do column generation in BCP. All of these are 
> accessible from the links on the COIN web page under resources.

I knew that resources - many thanks to him. Heard in the near future you
could honor his work in a special way ...

Best regards,
Stephan Hennig