Re: bug tracking

[John W. Eaton]

On  2-Mar-2010, Jordi Guti rrez Hermoso wrote:

| Are you still averse to the idea of merging that website with
| octave.org ? I thought that historically they were separate because
| you wanted to keep a close watch on the quality of code that got
| labelled as "Octave". I'd like it if all got merged together or was
| more closely and obviously affiliated (think of the questions in the
| user list about people asking for this or that function and apparently
| not aware that it's implemented in Octave-forge).

One problem with merging is licensing.  Octave is part of the GNU
project.  We don't want to host any non-free stuff as part of the
Octave project on savannah.

A similar situation might be autoconf and the autoconf macro archive.
Should all of the contributed macros be hosted as part of the autoconf
project?

Another concern I have is with people contributing code and abandoning
it.  How do the Octave Forge maintainers deal with that problem?  I
know that I don't want to become the default maintainer for all
contributed Octave packages.

jwe