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Re: Octave Forge -- Looking for a new leader
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Olaf Till |
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Re: Octave Forge -- Looking for a new leader |
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Sun, 8 Jan 2017 19:29:04 +0100 |
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On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 05:31:11PM +0100, c. wrote:
>
> On 8 Jan 2017, at 16:59, Julien Bect <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > My opinion about the second option (transforming OF into a collection of
> > externally hosted repos and/or tarballs) : this would be very drastic
> > change of philosophy,
>
> I think this is one moment where we have the opportunity to make "drastic"
> changes ...
>
> > and...
> >
> > 1) It only partially solves the problem, since the release of a package
> > means updating the web site both to let it point at the new release
>
> not really, see below
>
> > (unless we define a standard way to find it on the external site),
>
> yes this is one possibilty, but there are other options as well e.g. we could
> maintain the list in a svn/mercurial/git repository
>
> > and to update the documentation (unless we also stop distributing a
> > documentation of the OF web site ?).
>
> my opinion is that package maintainers should also maintain their own
> documentation website.
> octave.org can just have a link to the documentation.
>
> > 2) And again, I believe that it requires as above a comprehensive set of
> > tools for automated checking of formal correctness (unless we accept the
> > idea that OF is a collection of links without any garantee of quality ?).
>
> Is this really that bad an option?
> In what way do we "garantee" quality right now?
> And how exactly do we define "quality" now?
I have read the arguments for giving up a central web site.
I don't want to repeat the arguments, given in this thread, for
maintaining the notion of supported packages, but I value them high,
and they make a central web site with some supervision the natural
choice. ('Supported packages', as I see it, are identical with those
which are allowed to be hosted at the central web site.)
In addition to the above, I think the spirit of collaboration between
package maintainers is best kept with keeping the practice of general
access to all packages for each maintainer; this, too, is best
achieved with a central web site for the package repositories.
As for giving the maintainers the right to publish a release, I think
this in itself would be useful and probably not harmful, but if this
right is necessarily connected with access to the whole web site, I
would not suggest we should allow it.
To enable us to suggest something meaningful, could someone explain
how the access rights are organized for us at Sourceforge? (Which
levels?)
@Oliver: Your wiki page seems to be a good start, but I would say it
should be explicitly marked as a draft version which is currently
discussed ...
Olaf
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- Re: Octave Forge -- Looking for a new leader, (continued)
- Re: Octave Forge -- Looking for a new leader, Julien Bect, 2017/01/07
- Re: Octave Forge -- Looking for a new leader, c., 2017/01/08
- Re: Octave Forge -- Looking for a new leader, Nir Krakauer, 2017/01/08
- Re: Octave Forge -- Looking for a new leader, c., 2017/01/08
- Re: Octave Forge -- Looking for a new leader, Nir Krakauer, 2017/01/08
- Re: Octave Forge -- Looking for a new leader, c., 2017/01/08
- Re: Octave Forge -- Looking for a new leader, c., 2017/01/08
- Re: Octave Forge -- Looking for a new leader, Nir Krakauer, 2017/01/08
- Re: Octave Forge -- Looking for a new leader, Julien Bect, 2017/01/08
- Re: Octave Forge -- Looking for a new leader, c., 2017/01/08
- Re: Octave Forge -- Looking for a new leader,
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- Re: Octave Forge -- Looking for a new leader, Julien Bect, 2017/01/08
- Re: Octave Forge -- Looking for a new leader, Olaf Till, 2017/01/08
- Re: Octave Forge -- Looking for a new leader, Oliver Heimlich, 2017/01/08
- Re: Octave Forge -- Looking for a new leader, Doug Stewart, 2017/01/08
- Re: Octave Forge -- Looking for a new leader, Sebastian Schöps, 2017/01/09
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