[Pkg-octave-devel] Collaborative effort for the migration to Octave 3.6

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

2012/2/24 Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr>:
> Hi,
>
> Since several people on the list have expressed their interest in
> helping for the transition to Octave 3.6, I have created a section on
> our wiki page [1] to facilitate the coordination of the collaborative
> work.
>
> As there are many small packages to be modified, the idea is to split
> packages across people.
>
> If you want to help, add your name at some place(s) in the last column
> next to your favorite 'Forge package(s), and start hacking.
>
> For an upload to unstable, you will have to wait for Octave 3.6.1 and
> octave-pkg-dev >= 0.7.5 being uploaded there (this should happen
> soon). An upload to experimental is already possible: it has Octave
> 3.4.3, which does not differ much from Octave 3.6.1, except for a
> SOVERSION bump (liboctave0 => liboctave1).
>
> Also, in order to get write access to the git repositories, you need to
> create an account on Alioth and then ask Thomas to be added to our
> project there [2].
>
> Best,
>
> [1] http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianOctaveGroup
> [2] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-octave/
>
> --
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Hi,
I would have been happy to help, but I do not feel I am ready. I think
I may be more of a burden than help.
Anyway I noticed that qtoctave is still packaged. Is there any update
on that project that seems rather abandoned?

We have many bug due to the way qtoctave was implemented. And since
now the GUI is under dev, I think is time to drop qtoctave? I wouldn't
know if that is even polite, so if it is not, please forgive me. But I
thought it was good to let you know that as far as Octave goes,
qtOctave is not helping alot.

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M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
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University of Zürich
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