Re: Becoming a Forge Developer

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 3:48 PM, JD Walsh <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thank you, Carnë. I can work with that. :-)
>
> I noticed that you added the package maintainer to the cc-list for the
> `cmdscale' patch. In the future, when I upload a new patch, should I cc the
> package maintainer, write to this list, or both?
>
> --JD
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On 27 October 2014 18:17, JD Walsh <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > Hi! I'm a PhD candidate in Mathematics at Georgia Tech, and right now my
>> > thesis work involves a LOT of Octave programming. I came across a
>> > problem
>> > with the `cmdscale' function in the Octave-Forge Statistics package and
>> > uploaded a patch for it (Patch 8559 at
>> > https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?8559). A copy of the submitted patch
>> > file is
>> > attached.
>> >
>> > I'd like to make more ongoing contributions: if nothing else, when I was
>> > preparing `cmdscale' for submission I noticed that the closely-related
>> > MatLab functions `mdscale' and `procrustes' are both missing from
>> > Octave-Forge-Statistics. The online info about becoming a Forge
>> > Developer
>> > said I should post a request here, but the page is a little outdated
>> > (the
>> > references to `svn' on that page made cloning the current source
>> > ``interesting'').
>> >
>> > Am I in the right place? If so, I hope you like the submission (and my
>> > SourceForge ID is the same one I'm using on Savannah: jdwalsh). If I'm
>> > in
>> > the wrong place, can anyone tell me where to submit this request?
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> yes, you're at the right place. The developers page on the OF website [1]
>> was
>> written some time ago and it's only relevant for the few packages that are
>> still on the old svn repository.  Nowadays, the only thing that matters is
>> that
>> the released tarball is a valid package which is defined in the Octave
>> manual.
>>
>> With the move to a distributed VCS we don't give commit access to new
>> users
>> as easily.  A patch is just as good and you can attach it to the tracker
>> for
>> review or you can host your clone wherever you want and make pull
>> requests.
>> With time, if the package maintainers requests it, we can give you push
>> access.
>>
>> Carnë
>>
>> [1] http://octave.sourceforge.net/developers.html
>
>

JD,
Remember to post your answer at the bottom of the original message.

If you write to this list it should be OK. If we need the maintainer
and he/she is not responsive, then we add them in CC.