Re: atan2 on 3 dimentional array

[John W. Eaton]

On 16-Jul-2008, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:

| On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:14 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
| > On 16-Jul-2008, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
| >
| > | > BTW, we could really use a release manager for the stable branch.
| > | > Would anyone like to contribute by doing that?
| > |
| > | What exactly should the rm do?
| >
| > I have the following tasks in mind:
| >
| >  * Monitor Octave bug reports and apply patches from the main development
| >    branch to the stable branch.
| >
| >    In some instances this job is trivial, but in others it requires
| >    some care as the two branches may diverge so that patches don't
| >    apply cleanly, or a change to the development branch might not be
| >    appropriate for the stable branch (e.g., it changes an interface
| >    that would break binary compatibility for .oct files).  In the
| >    latter case, maybe there is another fix that can be made that
| >    doesn't break compatibility, or the fix may have to be deferred to
| >    the release of the next major version.  Ideally, only bug fixes
| >    (and perhaps only fixes for regressions from previous releases)
| >    should be applied, as I think the goal for the stable branch
| >    should be stability.  But currently we tend to apply patches that
| >    are "safe", even if they fix bugs that are not regressions from
| >    previous releases.
| >
| >  * Make periodic releases from the stable branch.
| >
| > jwe
| >
| 
| It sounds like something I could handle. However, I guess I'll need
| some guidance at first,
| as well as gaining practice with Mercurial. If you're ready for
| answering close-to-stupid questions for some time, then I feel up to
| the job :)

I was hoping to get someone new involved rather than overloading the
current active contributors, but if you are interested, I won't turn
down the offer.  I'll contact you privately with some details about
what you can do.

Thanks,

jwe