Re: Octave Forge -- Looking for a new leader

[Olaf Till]

On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 01:40:05AM -0800, Sebastian Schöps wrote:
> However, I still believe that we should give up on the idea of supported and
> unsupported packages and just maintain a list of known packages (hosted on
> 3rd party sites) that are compatible (i.e. have a Makefile like you
> suggested recently). 

Why do you believe so?

> I'd say, we put this on the agenda for next OctConf and do not start
> discussing now. It's only a few more month...

Off-list discussions probably can be valuable boosters, but excluding
the dedicated mailing list from discussions and decisions seems no
good practice to me. I'd encourage discussing (and maybe deciding) as
much as possible on the list before OctConf, and each final discussion
before taking a decision should take place on the list.

Olaf

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