Re: bioinfo package - maintenance of ...

[Alois Schloegl]

On 2017-12-26 23:53, Julien Bect wrote:
> Le 26/12/2017 à 22:05, Alois Schloegl a écrit :
>> It seems there are no further objections on me taking the role as
>> maintainer of the bioinfo package.
>>
>> As discussed, this package will be maintained under a coding
>> style that is compatible to Octave AND Matlab. Both, Octave
>> and Matlab, are target platforms. If the code does not run
>> correctly on any of the target platforms, it is considered a bug.
> 
> Hi Alois,
> 
> Unfortunately, it seems to me that there *are* objections.  Indeed, the
> current OF admins are Olaf Till and Oliver Heimlich, and :
> 
> 1) Oliver seems to think that the package should be maintained in
> "Octave style" (*) unless it is placed in the "external group".
> 
> 2) Olaf seems to think that the package should be in the "community"
> group (**).
> 
> Good luck with the negotiations ;-))
> 
> @++
> Julien
> 
> 
> 
> (*) which, apparently, means using # instead of % among other things.
> 
> (**) however, to this day, no one in the community actually cared enough
> about this package to actually maintain it...
> 


I thought I've given enough reasons.
Oliver, Olaf, do you still have objections ?

  Alois