Re: Octave-Forge website / docs.html

[Søren Hauberg]

Den 13-08-2014 kl. 13:23 skrev Julien Bect:
> Le 13/08/2014 12:46, c. a écrit :
> > the list used internally by pkg.m is here:
> >
> > http://octave.sourceforge.net/list_packages.php
> >
> > be aware that this is not a static text file it is generated
> > by a server-side script by iterating over all directories containing
> > html docs.
>
> It seems a little unnatural to me to require that the whole OF website
> has been built to be able to get something as "primitive" as the list of
> all Octave packages...

The motivation for it this way was to minimise the burden of the OF 
administrators. Back when I was actively involved, running OF took quite 
a bit of time, so the more files that needed to be edited the more 
time-consuming release-related tasks became.

I'm not arguing against a static list of packages, but I urge you to 
pick a system which requires the smallest amount of work to maintain -- 
maintaining the web site is the task which is the least fun to most 
people in this community, so if it becomes a hurdle nobody will do it.

Several people (myself included) basically burned out because of 
annoying web-maintenance responsibilities. So, please don't design a 
system which require a small amount of work to maintain -- design a 
system which require the *smallest possible* amount of work to maintain.

Cheers
Søren