man, 23 11 2009 kl. 10:12 +0100, skrev Carlo de Falco: > > Yeah, I've been thinking a bit about this. I guess we would like to > > have > > a whole bunch of maintainers, meaning we would have many people with > > 'admin' status. I don't really have security concerns as I trust > > people > > on this list, but the chance of somebody doing something wrong by > > accident is just very high. So, I don't think we should take this > > route. > > actually I feel that having many different people manually messing > around > with the web pages might be even more error prone, at least the SF GUI > tools > restrict the kind of operations that one can do on the server and they > seem > to take care automatically of setting file permissions.
But people can't upload HTML this way, right? > > One option would be to have a team of administrators. When a > > maintainer > > wants to release a package he/she would then contact this team (on > > this > > list perhaps?) and tell them to upload the package and the html. The > > downside to this approach is that a release depends on this team, but > > that's why I would like to have more than one person on this team. The > > current system, where things depend on me, is just terrible as I don't > > have that much time. > > > > Would such a setup be a good idea? > > This sounds like the solution requiring the least maintainance and > development work. > I would say, as most packages are distributed as source so the total > file size of package > tarball + function reference is small, let's set up a "package > release" forum on the SF website, > let each package maintainer submit their package to the forum for > release and a team of admins > listening to the forum would take care of uploading the files. > Using the GUI the file upload procedure does not require much time so > I could volunteer to be one of such admins. I think this sounds reasonable. Does anybody know how to create a new forum on SF? If not, then I'll look into it in the not-too-distant future... Søren ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
