2011/7/21 Carnë Draug <[email protected]>: > some e-mails to the mailing list reporting bugs (and some with > patches or suggested changes), seem to never have a response. I > myself have a couple of such e-mails, marked as unread, for when I > have the time to do something about them. I feel that these bugs > will just be lost, which is even worse for the ones that come with a > patch attached. > > I believe that this could be better managed if users reported them > on the octave-forge bug tracker, which we do have at > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=2888&atid=102888
Actually, I think the right fix is to merge with the Octave bug tracker in Savannah. We already get plenty of bug reports there for Octave-Forge packages, and we keep telling them, "that's not us, but a separate project!" which seems very wrong to me. We're the same people for the most part, we all care about core Octave and we all care at least about a few Octave-Forge packages, and we all have a comparable set of skills to work on Octave-Forge or Octave itself. We can keep using svn with Savannah, but I'd like to take the opportunity to do some cleanup and move Octave-Forge to hg: break it up into one hg repo per package plus another repo that contains them all as hg subrepos, plus any project metadata that may be necessary. As for bugtracking, all we would have to do is set a special Octave-Forge category in the Savannah (actually, this category already exists in Octave's bug tracker, but it's used to mean "not our problem!"). The only problem is a few packages have non-free licenses, but they're rarely used or maintained, and I think all the non-free packages can be dropped. What do you think? - Jordi G. H. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10 Tips for Better Web Security Learn 10 ways to better secure your business today. Topics covered include: Web security, SSL, hacker attacks & Denial of Service (DoS), private keys, security Microsoft Exchange, secure Instant Messaging, and much more. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426210/ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
