Hi Sorry about the late reply.
tir, 13 09 2011 kl. 12:00 +0100, skrev Carnë Draug: > I was thinking of making some changes to the website and trackers in > SF tonight so would be nice to get opinions first. It can all be > reverted later though. I think it is fine to play with things, but I think the move to the SF trackers is perhaps a bit early. Did people really agree that this is the right move (i.e. not going to Savannah) ? As I'm trying to step back as maintainer I don't want to have a strong opinion, but I just haven't gotten an impression of a consensus. > On the website, aside changing the text to mention the trackers, I > noticed the following: > * the octave logo is no longer the sombrero. Should I change it to the new > one? I'm not sure; it has previously been considered a problem that Octave-Forge copied the Octave logo, as it provided confusions if the two projects are the same. > * on the main page, should I mention the new command to install > packages "pkg install -forge package-name" Sure > * there are two emails address for the mailing list > "octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net" and "octave-...@lists.sf.net". > Should I keep only one? I don't really care as they go the same place. > I also noticed that the link for ChangeLog in the main page gives a > 404 error. But the files does exist in doc/htdoc. Could it be a > permissions problem? Or something happened because the file has 43 032 > lines? I don't know (I don't have time to check right now) > On the trackers I was thinking of doing the following (by the way, I > noticed it's very easy to move reports between trackers): > * as mentioned in the other thread, create 1 group for each of the > most used packages and another for "other packages" and create 1 group > for documentation and another for code. Users can fill this when > reporting bugs and it's optional. > * remove the patches tracker (both feature requests and bug reports > can also take patches) > * remove the request support tracker (almost no one uses it and > that's what the mailing list exists for). I'm not sure here. > We do not use the screenshots feature of SF but it's on. Should I turn > it off? Same for the project news feature? And then, there's two > forums for octave-forge both hosted by SF, one that integrates in SF > and another that is phpBB. This one > https://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/forums and this one > https://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/octave/index.php . The first has a > section to ask for help and discussion, and a private section to > submit new packages releases (that no has used). The second seems to > be only to release new packages. Would it be easier to maintain only > one? I don't know :-( Søren ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA Learn about the latest advances in developing for the BlackBerry® mobile platform with sessions, labs & more. See new tools and technologies. Register for BlackBerry® DevCon today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy1 _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
