On 11 Apr 2010, at 23:58, Søren Hauberg wrote: > søn, 11 04 2010 kl. 16:43 +0200, skrev Carlo de Falco: >> On 11 Apr 2010, at 13:51, Arno Onken wrote: >>> I filed a bug report and got a reply: > > Thanks > >>> >>> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/ticket/9948#comment:6 >>> >>> In summary, the trailing garbage is caused by the http transfer and >>> SourceForge recommends to use the FRS service instead of the phpBB >>> release forum. >>> >>> Are there any objections to changing the release procedure? >>> >>> Arno >> >> It seems the person dealing with the bug has not understood the >> procedure we are using at the moment. >> Packages are indeed released via the SF file release system. >> The forum is used as a way for package maintainers to send the >> packages to the site maintainers so that they can then upload them to >> the FRS. > > I have made a comment in the bug tracker describing out system. > Hopefully, this will give us a more usable reply. > >> Also the GZIP FAQ item the SF guy refers to: http://www.gzip.org/ >> #faq8 >> seems hardly relevant to me in this case. > > I think he just meant to say that it's just a warning and it doesn't > harm anybody. Personally, I disagree very much with this opinion, as > users will be confronted with this warning, not knowing if it means > the > package is broken or not. I certainly wasn't sure if the warning could > safely be ignored or not. > >> Søren, what do you think about this? > > I still think we should try to persuade the SF people to fix their > bugs. > If they do not feel their system is buggy (though it obviously is), > then > we can think about alternatives. One would be to find another place to > let package maintainers upload releases. Another would be to move to > another hosting service (Savannah?). But let's give the SF people a > chance first. > > Does that sound reasonable? > > Søren >
Søren, Tahnks for writing the very detailed comment to the SF staff, it might be useful for them to think about possible different ways for us to deal with the package release system. I am afraid though, that, as the issue is still marked as "closed" they will hardly ever read it. I don't see a way to re-open the ticket, Arno maybe you as the OP can do this? I believe we should also maintain the point that the fact that the forum garbles tar.gz attachments IS a bug, indipendently of what we are using the attachments for. As for moving to savannah, even though having only one hosting service for both octave and octave-forge would have some advantages, I would really keep this as a last resort as it would take quite some work and would break a lot of links on websites and books referring to cotave- forge. c. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
