Wilf Wilson

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This is a follow-on pull request #4050, although it doesn't require that PR. I describe the changes below, but as mentioned below, this PR will break the tests of some...

kind: enhancement
do not merge
topic: library
release notes: not needed
priority: low

Should `Blocks` work for intransitive groups? Currently, it is documented to only work for transitive actions (understandably). If not, what should be the behaviour of `Blocks` given an intransitive group?...

kind: bug
gapdays2019-spring

`ListPerm` is a global function that doesn't validate its arguments. When given input that is valid (according to its documentation), it behaves fine. Unfortunately people don't always give valid input,...

topic: library
topic: error handling
kind: quirk

It's very easy for changes to the GAPDoc code to introduce slight problems into the compilation of the manual. Currently, I think our CI only catches problems with the manuals...

topic: documentation
kind: discussion
topic: ci

I don't think it is sufficiently easy to find out which of the four main digraph encoding formats apply to which kinds of digraphs. I'm talking about `(di)sparse6` and `(di)graph6`....

enhancement
help wanted
doc

This would do the same thing as the usual `on: push` and `on: pr` workflows, except that instead of using the checkout of Digraphs corresponding to the pushed branch or...

ci

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cograph#Other_characterizations for several equivalent definitions. The simplest seems to be 'graph (i.e. symmetric digraph) that doesn't contain the 4-vertex path graph as a subgraph'. I don't know how hard...

help wanted
feature-request

Currently we `malloc` and blithely assume that it succeeds. Usually it does (at least on 64-bit), but it doesn't necessarily succeed, and it is more likely to fail on 32-bit...

possible-bug
C language

...particularly in the Schreier-Sims implementation. @ChrisJefferson reported in https://github.com/semigroups/Semigroups/issues/634#issuecomment-790661632 that when using the homomorphism finder for the first time, Digraphs allocates 1.25 GB of memory, and that moreover, this memory...

C language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance-transitive_graph

feature-request