Re: Release goals for 3.6

[John W. Eaton]

On  2-Aug-2011, Lukas Reichlin wrote:

| - For psychological reasons, binaries are offered on the Octave
| page, not the Octave-Forge page.

Windows and OS X are treated specially because there is no other
reasonable channel for users to get binaries?  Or do we also
distribute .deb and .rpm files?

| - Once the build problems are solved, build binaries for each
| development snapshot such that new problems are recognized at an
| early stage.

Who is building the binaries?

| A release is not a release without binaries for all supported
| platforms.

Is a release of GCC not a release because the GCC developers do not
build binaries for all supported platforms?

What exactly is the list of all supported platforms?

| If Octave developers are not able to build binaries, who
| will be anyway?

I can only speak for myself here, but I'm pretty sure I can build a
binary.  What I'm not interested in doing as a volunteer is
distributing the binaries I build.  But if others are willing to do
that, then great.

| - Some sort of designated binary manager, similar
| to the job of a release manager.

Are you volunteering for this job?  :-)

jwe