Re: draft release announcement

[Søren Hauberg]

ons, 09 02 2011 kl. 04:55 -0500, skrev John W. Eaton:
> On  9-Feb-2011, John W. Eaton wrote:
> 
> | I plan to post the following message to announce the release.
> | Comments or suggestions?
> 
> Two things I thought of to add to the announcement:
> 
>   * Mention that the sources are now only available from ftp.gnu.org
>     and its mirrors, not ftp.octave.org as in the past (I want to
>     retire the machine that hosts ftp.octave.org).  Maybe we can
>     eventually have ftp.octave.org redirect to ftp.gnu.org, or just
>     not worry about using ftp as a way to distribute Octave.

I don't think we'll have to worry about this. People that are smart
enough to use FTP should be smart enough to figure this out :-)

>   * Explain that the savannah bug tracker is now the preferred place to
>     report bugs and that the mailing list for reporting bugs is no
>     longer active.

We don't get that many bug reports sent directly to the mailing list, so
I don't think this is a problem that needs to be addresses.

Just my thoughts,
Søren