Re: [OctDev] Octave-Forge bugs in the tracker?

[Philip Nienhuis]

Carnë Draug wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> at the moment, only a small part of the octave-forge devs has given an
> opinion on the subject. It would be nice to gather the opinion of
> everyone else, even if it's just "I don't really care, it's all the
> same to me".

Well if you really start pulling :-)

Formally combining the help-octave ML and the Oct-Dev (Octave-Forge) 
list for general help questions seems a much more obvious move to me.
I think having one entry point for questions is much more obvious for 
average users than the two separate ones we have now.
BTW I find the O-F ML layout very clumsy; one always has to scroll 
several screens down to see threads and there was something with dates 
or authors of last thread post that doesn't make sense (I forgot the 
details).

Combining the bug trackers could work OK, but given the current informal 
character and low traffic volume on the Oct-Dev ML I do not see a 
pressing need (yet). But I certainly won't resist.
If the bug trackers are combined I think a clear distinction should be 
visible between core Octave and Octave-Forge bug reports. It should be 
possible to show only core Octave or only Octave-Forge reports, the 
latter perhaps even sorted by package.

Lastly I'm fairly happy with the -let's say: fairly relaxed- svn setup 
of OF.
I find the stricter workflow of Mercurial a bit daunting (although I do 
understand very well why that is essential for core Octave). I hope that 
combining the bug trackers won't be a first step to moving all OF stuff 
to Mercurial too, sooner or later.
IMO SVN suits fairly small projects like the individual OF packages very 
well.


Philip