Re: Bug tracker for Octave Forge

[Søren Hauberg]

tor, 10 06 2010 kl. 09:11 -0700, skrev Rik:
> > 
> > I don't want the Octave bug tracker to be the place to report bugs for
> > Octave Forge packages.  Those packages are not part of Octave and I
> > don't think we want to appear to be responsible for the bug reports
> > for them.
> That was generally my feeling.  Although it's off-putting, I think we need
> to flag these bugs using the Octave-Forge tag; write a quick response
> saying that the problem function is in Octave Forge, not Octave; link to a
> location to report Octave Forge bugs; and put the bug in a queue to be
> closed in a few weeks.

The problem with this approach is that most people simply will not
report the bug to Octave-Forge. It is at least rare that Octave-Forge
gets bug reports after users have been told to report their bug
elsewhere.

Soren