Re: speeding up Octave development (was: Re: m-code)

[John W. Eaton]

On  8-Mar-1999, Huaiyu Zhu <address@hidden> wrote:

| There are several ways to separate maintainer email from general
| questions.  Some projects use two-tier or three-tier systems.
| May be this will work?
| 
| Core: the interpreter.
| Distrib: m-files that go with official distribution.
| Contrib: m-files that are available on ftp sites.
| 
| Now split the list into
| 
| help-octave
| devel-octave
| 
| so that questions about contributed m-files are only answered on the
| devel list.  Contrib files can be incorporated in distrib as JWE sees fit.
| There can be Cathedral and Baazar at the same time. :-)

There is already an octave-maintainers mailing list, which I presume
serves the same purpose as a devel-octave list would.

Contributed files that are posted to the octave-sources mailing list
or sent directly to me are already included as I have time and as I
see fit.

So, I don't see how these suggestions would actually change anything,
except for the name of the octave-maintainers mailing list.

jwe