Re: Admin support for Octave Forge

Kai Torben Ohlhus <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Oct 2020 17:37:02 +0900

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.octave.maintainers
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 10/1/20 4:56 PM, Olaf Till wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 01:26:55PM +0900, Kai Torben Ohlhus wrote:
>>
>> Thank you Olaf 🙂  If there is confidential information available, I
>> would be happy to receive them off-list.
> 
> It's not confidential, I just wanted to limit list traffic to topics
> of general interest. But there still may be something in this thread
> which is of general interest, so I'll keep the list in. The attached
> package-publishing-instructions are more or less the same I sent to
> Mike some time ago.
> 
>> I started to make some book keeping and created a list in the wiki [1]
>> how to publish an OF release.  If your time permits, feel free to
>> add/correct items there.
> 
> Well, I never quite understood why such information is duplicated at
> the wiki. Maybe because it's easier to edit at the wiki. There is
> already such information at the OF webpage. If the wiki is preferred,
> I'd suggest that the OF webpage just links to the wiki instead of
> holding this information.
> 
> Similar with package documentation. Here, there were also efforts to
> provide duplicated information at the wiki, and this was sometimes not
> in sync with information from the package maintainer.
> 
> What regards my time, I can't pretend to be able to do much more in OF
> administration now than an occasional package release.
> 
> Olaf
> 


Thank you for the instructions Olaf.  Nobody can be blamed for limited
time able to spend, we are all volunteers =)

Right, I hope to reduce duplication where possible.

Kai

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