[OctDev] Octave-forge Development

[Mark P. E. <ma...@sr...>]

I am trying to figure out how octave-forge development works.  For the main 
part of octave, John Eaton set's the direction, adds patches etc., but how 
about for octave-forge?  When I look at the "Octave-forge developer's guide" 
at http://octave.sourceforge.net/ it has instructions for adding modules to 
octave-forge. Does each module's author maintain the module?  I probably 
don't have the ability or the time to add major modules to octave-forge, but 
I can do some bug-fixes, documentation, etc.  How would I go about doing 
that? Just having a few comments on what works and what doesn't seems like it 
would be helpful.  Should this go on http://wiki.octave.org/?   Maybe we 
could avoid some of the frustration expressed recently by Tom in his post to 
he...@oc....

> From: "Tom G. Smith (Smitty)" <sm...@kc...>
> To: he...@oc...

> I've gotten octave-forge to compile and install on octave 2.1.57,
> but I'm not at all sure I have anything more than compiled garbage.
> I had to make numerous source code changes, some of which were
> correcting simple typographical errors, so I know this code has never
> been successfully compiled and tested.

Some things in octave-forge work very well. It is a shame for the whole system 
to be judged by the parts that don't work.

                       -Mark