Dear all,
Before entering the atmosphere, i want to thank you all from outside, as an
external admirer. You all did a great job providing a free alternative
(pick any interpretation) for scientists explore the boundaries of
knowledge with no constraints on what they can or cannot do with the tools
in hand. Thank you.
Now let's dive in with the minds open, forget the past because it doesn't
alter anything...
I can smell two types of air. One is more dense, full in substratum, in
fact it occurs in deeper layers, close to the core where we can find a rich
environment with beautiful (parser) trees, birds, ... It's refreshing. The
second can only be smelled on high mountains, and lucky are the ones who
had the opportunity to feel this sensation.
As a adventurer, i would like to share this sensation with my friends, but
due to the altitude and faraway places they always give up in joining this
journey. I insist to them the air found in the mountains is sublime, but
it's hard to convince people when they are under the effect of toxic gases
produced in urban centers.
I'm here to purpose the union of these two important communities (Core and
Forge), to eliminate this strong separation that makes devs/users lives
much more difficult. We can make the GNU Octave atmosphere even richer and
minimize the losses, as nature does.
I don't see reasons to maintain two mailing lists, two disconnected
repositories, two communities. After all, we're all doing our best to
provide what we think is useful to us and to others.
Being concrete, what do you think in gradually absorb Octave Forge packages
into Octave main repo as subrepos? This would require an effective
collaboration to review the packages, to purge redundancies
(reimplementation) and i'm here to help, just to mention!
People interested in contribute to the Forge packages would just do it
inside the main Octave repo, inside a subdirectory. Forge maintainers would
have total access to the subrepo contributing exactly the same way they
contribute today, with the difference they would be closer to the core,
which is great.
The builds would be completely independent, we would just add targets to
the packages (make forge, make forge-optim, ...).
Please, put all the individual feelings aside and think as a community. I'm
glad to be part of it.
Best regards,
Júlio.
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