Re: Contribution: pathfinding routines in directed graphs

[Julien Bect]

Le 28/07/2016 à 07:34, Tatsuro MATSUOKA a écrit :
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Nicolas Jares
> > To: octave-maintainersrg
> > Date: 2016/7/28, Thu 08:06
> > Subject: Contribution: pathfinding routines in directed graphs
> >
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > I've made a few octave routines for pathfinding in directed graphs and was told 
> > by some colleagues that it might be useful for others if those routines were 
> > included in some Octave package. I have no experience in contributing (I'm a 
> > Math PhD student). How should I proceed?
> >
> >
> > Nicolás Jares .-
> >
> >
> > PD: Sorry for my bad English
> Please see the octave manual
> Appendix D Contributing Guidelines
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Contributing-Guidelines.html#Contributing-Guidelines

Hi Nicolás,

The link provided by Tatsuro is for people that want to contribute to 
Octave itself.  That's probably not your case right now (unless, e.g., 
your functions provide an implementation of some Matlab function 
currently missing in Octave).

Instead, what you should be looking at is the Octave Forge project, 
which provides a collection of packages for Octave. 
http://octave.sourceforge.net/index.html

Before even looking at OF, I would recommend making your code available 
(on github, bitbucket, sourceforge or wherever you like) under a free 
software licence, and advertise is on address@hidden

Then you can come back on this list (address@hidden) and discuss 
the possible inclusion in some Octave Forge package (see 
http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.php for the list of existing 
packages) or propose the creation of a new one.

@++
Julien