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Re: description text of Octave Forge at Sourceforge


From: Mike Miller
Subject: Re: description text of Octave Forge at Sourceforge
Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 12:44:18 -0700
User-agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2)

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 09:33:10 +0200, Olaf Till wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as you know the web pages of Octave Forge are at:
> 
> https://octave.sourceforge.io/
> 
> But sourceforge also maintains descriptions of the hosted projects,
> which for Octave Forge is at:
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/
> 
> The latter description contains a paragraph about core Octave, too. I
> think this is not good. The control of what is stated about core
> Octave should be at the Octave website. It should not happen that,
> although the introductory text at the Octave website is carefully
> chosen, some people get a possibly slightly different introduction to
> Octave from the sourceforge website.
> 
> I'd remove the respective paragraph, if their are no objections.
> 
> The links in this description seem to be automatically generated, so
> there is only a link to our Octave Forge website. But this is ok. The
> latter website contains a link to core Octave, of course.

I actually don't think that paragraph is misleading. I think it's
helpful to define what GNU Octave is for users who may be arriving at
the Octave-Forge project for the first time.

If you remove that paragraph entirely, a new user only sees that
Octave-Forge provides some domain-specific packages for something called
Octave, but if they don't already use Octave, that doesn't tell them
much of anything.

It's true that the preferred description of Octave hosted at the main
Octave web site should be considered canonical, and the paragraph on the
Octave-Forge main page could be updated to match that.

A small standalone paragraph could be added to the end, if you are
allowed more characters, that says something like

    Octave is an official GNU project, refer to www.octave.org for more
    information.

Even if you are not allowed to create your own hyperlinks, having plain
text pointing to the Octave web site would be helpful there.

While you're updating things, can you update the link at

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/support

to use the new "https://octave.sourceforge.io"; schema?

-- 
mike



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