Re: Unmaintained packages - becoming a maintainer?

[octave]

> On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 02:59 -0700, address@hidden wrote:
>> I don't really care about any of them at the moment,
>
> Unless you're the first exception I encounter, not having an initial
> stake in the source code ensures that you will never contribute
> anything to it.
>
> That being said, in case you are the first person I meet who doesn't
> care but will nevertheless contribute changes, reviving the
> fixed-point arithmetic package would be great. It's gotten badly
> bit-rotten, and is of interest to people working with certain digital
> signal processing hardware.

I care about maths and programming, but not particularly about how I apply
them.

The fixed package is generating a lot of type conversion errors for me,
I'll take a look and see if I can do anything about them.

Neil