Re: 3.6.1 release

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 02/25/2012 12:30 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 25-Feb-2012, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>
> | On 02/24/2012 09:44 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> |>  On 24-Feb-2012, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> |>
> |>  | On 22 February 2012 14:28, John W. Eaton<address@hidden>   wrote:
> |>  |>   On 18-Feb-2012, Rik wrote:
> |>  |>
> |>  |>   | Are we okay to release 3.6.1?
> |>  |
> |>  |>   Sorry for the delay.
> |>  |
> |>  | So are we gonna have a release party or what? I'm still saving the
> |>  | champagne from the 3.6.0 party we missed.
> |>
> |>  Does the following look OK as a release announcement?
> |
> | Looks great!
> |
> | At http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/NEWS-3.6.html
> |
> | 1) Typo "fucntion has bbeen recoded" [note two typos...and don't say
> | this out loud in mixed company]
> |
> | 2) Search the page for "cellstr input".  Sometimes "cellstr input"
> | appears and sometimes "cellstr inputs" appears, but often it seems just
> | the singular 'input' is appropriate.
>
> Rik checked in a change that I think fixes these and I updated the web
> page with the NEWS for 3.6.
>
> | 3) For the deprecated functions, perhaps alternate recommended function
> | could be included because the functions won't be present to return
> | recommended alternates anymore.  I.e. (the ? I don't know about, e.g.,
> | str2mat really isn't something I used often, cell strings work better):
>
> During the two release cycles when the functions are deprecated but
> remain in Octave, I think they give warnings that point to the
> alternative functions.  But yes, I suppose it could still be useful to
> list the alternatives in the news file for those people who are
> upgrading from very old versions.
>
> I updated my announcement slightly.  Are there any more suggestions
> before I send this out?

Getting picky...


>    the world.  Or you may use http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/octave and you
>    will be redirected automatically to a nearby mirror.

Should be a comma before the 'and' since there is a complete clause and 
no inferred subject.  Or this could be rewritten without the passive 
voice of "you will be redirected", e.g., 
"http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/octave, which will redirect automatically to a 
nearby mirror."


>    for numerical computations.  It provides capabilities for the
>    numerical solution of linear and nonlinear problems, and for
>    performing other numerical experiments.

Here's a case where there shouldn't be a comma before 'and'.  The 
implied subject and verb are "It provides".  Unlike the later sentence 
where the second half is an independent clause:

>    graphics capabilities for data visualization and manipulation.  Octave
>    is normally used through its interactive command line interface, but
>    it can also be used to write non-interactive programs.  The Octave

Dan