[Pkg-octave-devel] [soren at hauberg.org: [OctDev] Octave-Forge R2008-08-24]

[Thomas Weber]

Am Montag, den 25.08.2008, 22:24 +0200 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:
> * Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-08-25 10:32]:
> 
> > Actually, I consider it unfortunate that individual maintainers can't
> > release their packages themselves. This would spread the load[1] and
> > non-active packages wouldn't cause work.
> 
> I do not remember: have we already approached the octave-forge developers
> and asked them to "fix" this problem?

They are aware of the problem (bumping version numbers for unchanged
packages, that is). It seems the current scheme is a compromise due to
limitations by SF's file release system and it generates a lot of work
for octave-forge's release managers as well 

=> There's hope for a change :)

http://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2008-August/008149.html


	Thomas