[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60048] [octave forge] (fuzzy-logic-toolkit) fails to install

[Kai Torben Ohlhus]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #60048 (project octave):

@Tasos: You are right.  Many of Octave Forge's packages are unfortunately not
actively maintained anymore.  Last year I summarized about this issue
https://octave.discourse.group/t/online-developer-meeting-2020-11-10-the-future-of-octave-packages/349

Especially, that core Octave gets "blamed" for the lack of maintenance in some
package code, written by someone not (or no longer) involved into Octave
development, is very unfortunate 😓  There have been made decisions in the
past that make those packages look like an integral part of core Octave (same
bug tracker, same logo, etc.), which is far from the truth.  For example,
nobody would get the idea to blame the Python developers if some pypi package
did not work.

Maintaining those about 70 packages is far beyond the development power of
core Octave maintainers.  Despite simple installation issues, some of these
packages require domain knowledge for fixing bugs within them.  And releasing
those Octave Forge packages has been made too tedious unpaid work within
Octave Forge infrastructure.  John Donoghue is really doing a lot of work
keeping this legacy code heritage into shape, and I help out there as much as
I can, too, but there is still too much backlog left to catch up soon, and the
frustration level rises each year 😱

As a compromise, I reopen bug #53549 with a release/call-for-maintainer
request as this item got too much off topic thanks to me 😇

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