On 11/23/2012 02:26 PM, Carnë Draug wrote: > On 23 November 2012 19:46, Olaf Till<i7t...@t-online.de> wrote: >> I'd call it packa...@octave.org, so it is clearer what is meant. >> Also, 'forge' relates to SourceForge, doesn't it? And who can be sure >> that the package repository will stick to SourceForge forever. > > On 23 November 2012 20:00, Daniel J Sebald<daniel.seb...@ieee.org> wrote: >> Wasn't there some discussion about changing the name "forge" because of >> confusion with SourceForge? >> >> What about Agora? Should that have it's own mail list? > > Yes there was a discussion at OctConf and we agreed to keep the name > Forge. Agora would have 3 sections, one of them named forge for Octave > Forge. It's likely that Forge came from being hosted at Sourceforge, > but if we move out we can still keep that part of the name. > > I don't think that packages is a name representative of what the > mailing list is meant for. There are other packages not part of Octave > Forge. And this will be specially true if Agora works and many people > upload their own packages (who will not be part of Octave Forge). Such > name would suggest that we are developing them and giving them > support. We will not. For such cases, users should contact the Agora > package author directly. That is also the reason why Agora should not > have its own mailing list. If one compares Agora to FileExchange, it > does not make sense to have everyone that ever submitted code to > FileExchange on a mailing list in case a user has a question for one > of them.
OK, makes sense. May want to note that in the Agora documentation, that much of it is not community supported, but individually supported. > On 23 November 2012 19:46, Olaf Till<i7t...@t-online.de> wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 07:17:40PM +0100, Carnë Draug wrote: >>> * some e-mails are sent for more than one mailing list. If the same >>> mailman server is handling them, this should prevent people from >>> receiving 2 e-mails with the same subject. >> >> Really? It does not seem to be so with octave-help and >> octave-maintainers now. > > Oh! I thought mailman was smarter than that. It may be gmail that is > fusing the 2 e-mails together, I assumed it was mailman doing. > > On 23 November 2012 20:00, Daniel J Sebald<daniel.seb...@ieee.org> wrote: >> How much activity does the help list get? > > In what units? I just searched the archives--wow that list gets a lot of activity, hundreds of posts per month. Can't really change that one. Still "forge" I wonder about. The term seems too broad and vague. Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
