Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC.

[Olaf Till]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 01:54:01PM +0100, Julien Bect wrote:
> Since the first sentence already states that external packages remain under
> the control of their original dev/maintainer, I propose to remove the above
> sentence

Ok with me.

> and simply write:
> 
> *"**If an external package X is removed from Octave Forge**, previous
> releases of the package will remain available on Octave Forge."
> *

But what has the latter sentence to do with the original issue? A
guaranty that previous releases will always be available? I think we
are not in a position to give such a guaranty, since we are only a
group of programmers, dependent on external infrastructure. And even
the persons in our group may change. We can't give many guarantees...

Can't we just remove the sentence without replacement?

Olaf

> and not discuss explicitly what happens next (scenarios A/B above, or any
> other variant).
> 
> @++
> Julien

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