Re: NEWS and release announcement for 5.1 on the web site

[PhilipNienhuis]

siko1056 wrote
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 11:38 PM John W. Eaton <

> jwe@

> > wrote:
> 
>> I added two files to the octave web pages repo in the following
>> changeset:
>>
>>    https://hg.octave.org/web-octave/rev/afa95c42b86b
>>
>> and ran "make deploy"  It seems to have worked.  If anyone notices
>> problems, please let me know.
>>
>> I will post a release announcement to the mailing lists next.
>>
>> jwe
>>
> 
> 
> The update looks good to me, all links are working!  Good to hear that I'm
> not the only one able to manage octave.org updates ;-)
> 
> Just a final nuance is to increment the "community-news-page-serial":
> 
>    https://hg.octave.org/web-octave/rev/f58b6e395216
> 
> Then all Octave users who chose to be informed about updates will receive
> a
> message at next startup.
> 
> Thanks for all the release effort,

Thanks for all the efforts.

What about replacing the direct link to the binary windows installers on
ftp.gnu.org by the list of mirrors, http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/octave/windows? 
(Along the lines JWE himself mentions in his 5.1.0 announcement :-) )

Philip 



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