Re: Implementation of importdata belonging to Octave Core or Octave-Forge?

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 20 October 2012 14:26, Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden>
wrote:

> If you ask me, I think that including importdata in core so directly
> wasn't really good. As I see it one of the roles of Octave Forge is
> to provide a time for testing and eventually merge it into core.

Is that the intended use case for OF? My reasoning was that importdata
is a core Matlab function, so it should be in core Octave. I didn't
think quality went into it. We already have tons of crappy code in
core, and we have tons of amazing code in OF.

Is the problem that you would like to work yourself on improving
importdata but you see it as some sort of obstacle that it's in core?
If so, we should work instead to make it easier for you and others to
contribute to core functions. Supposedly, working with a DVCS is
supposed to be one step towards making this less of an obstacle.

- Jordi G. H.