On 26 April 2012 15:35, c. <carlo.defa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26 Apr 2012, at 13:05, Carnë Draug wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I have been going through the packages and here's some more changes
>> I'd like to propose:
>>
>>  * bugfix-3.0.6 -- this package simply overloads the intersect
>> function. Does it even make sense to have this around?
> No, I think it doesn't.
> It was useful when 3.0.6 was the current stable release it makes no more
> sense after that release has been obsoleted.
>
>> The current
>> function in core has already changed, this octave version is very old,
>> and we don't do this for any other octave versions (and it's not
>> because there's no bugs and regressions on them)
> yes, let's remove it.

Done.

>>  * fl-core -- move into fuzzy-logic-tollkit
> this has been discussed before but I don't remember the outcome of the 
> discussion.
>
> In general I would avoid merging packages that have different maintainers.
> They might not be willing to maintain the package once they feel it does
> not "belong" to them anymore, so the burden of maintainance would be left on 
> "The Community".
> So I would do that only by packages maintained by "The Community" or those 
> where the maintainers
> of both packages give explicit consent.

You're right. I didn't thought about it. I have been merging packages
that are without maintainer. I searched the mailing list and found the
reason why they didn't want them to be merged
http://gnu-octave-repository.2306053.n4.nabble.com/request-to-register-as-a-developer-td3982826.html

Carnë

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