Re: Octave Forge website internally re-structured, checks advisable

[Julien Bect]

Le 19/06/2017 à 17:52, Olaf Till a écrit :
> > There are a few problems on https://octave.sourceforge.io/stk/index.html :
> >
> >   * Some fields from the DESCRIPTION are missing: Last Release Date, Package
> > Author, Package Maintainer.
> Thanks for checking.
>
> I didn't check why the website wasn't able to extract these from
> stk/index.html, but provided a description.json file for stk to the
> website.

Ok, fine.


> >   * <b> </b> tags in the description text appear as plain text.  (If such
> > tags are a problem, I can remove them from future OF releases.)
> These tags are not present in description.json, it just takes the
> first sentence of 'Description:' in INDEX. It is no use trying to put
> html tags into this field, the website code puts it out literally.

Ok, fine.  But you mean DESCRIPTION and not INDEX, right ?


> > 1) the release date is set to the current date (19-Jun-2017), and not the
> > date in DESCRIPTION (6-May-2017).
> I couldn't reproduce this, I got 16-May-2017.

You're right, I just did it again and I get the correct date.  My bad.


> > 2) the "Licence" field now contains "Read licence" instead of "GNU Public Licence 
> > v3".
> You should add a 'License:' field to INDEX. For now, I've added "GPLv3+" to 
> description.json.

Ok, I will do that.  I don't remember why I originally did this 
"manually"... But again, you mean DESCRIPTION, not INDEX, right ?


@++
Julien