Re: [octave forge] releasing and template Makefiles

[Andrew Janke]

On 3/14/19 4:55 PM, Kai Torben Ohlhus wrote:

> I think what JuanPi is referring to is the step 12:  Some Octave Forge 
> admin has to accept the reviewed package put the released tarball to 
> [1], and finally announce the package update on the website (updated 
> list of functions and so on) to make `pkg install -forge` work.
>
> Oliver did lots of work last year to make Octave Forge a great website 
> and to formulate a SourceForge based release procedure.  I am too little 
> involved in this project to judge the real effort, but I have the 
> impression, that things are too complicated this year for the current 
> manpower.  Is Oliver currently the only one who can do this final 
> package release steps?  The SourceForge release list [2] counts 13 
> pending items over two months.  Did the Octave Forge release process stall?
>
> Kai
>
> [1] 
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Forge%20Packages/Individual%20Package%20Releases/
> [2] https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/package-releases/

If more manpower can help here, I'd be willing to volunteer, too. As a 
former Mac Homebrew maintainer, I have some experience with package 
managers and distro maintenance.

Cheers,
Andrew