Carlo de Falco wrote: > > 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 just tried to re-open the ticket but I cannot do it. Therefore, I wrote a mail to Chris Everest who closed the ticket in order to call attention to the new comment. Arno ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
