Re: Contribution for Octave pakages

[riganti]

Thank you very much Søren.  :)

Francesco Riganti



> lør, 09 08 2008 kl. 10:31 +0200, skrev Francesco Riganti:
>> I would like to contribute to improvement of same pakages of Octave at
>> sourceeforge.net
>> Please, does someone know how to do it? I know that it is necessary to
>> make a own occount, ok, but what is the next step? Do I Need to Ask
>> further Permission (pass and user) from authors of pakages?
>
>>From a practical point of view new contributors to the Octave-Forge
> packages go through the following steps:
>
> 1) Tell us about the change you propose on the
> address@hidden mailing list.
>
> 2) Before getting commit access to the repository you should show some
> code on the mailing list. This step is just there to make sure that
> people with commit access actually provide working code, so its mostly a
> formality.
>
> 3) If your suggested change is accepted (it almost always is, because
> Octave-Forge is a very open project), you will be given commit access to
> the repository. This requires a sourceforge account.
>
> For more info, read http://octave.sourceforge.net/developers.html, or
> ask at the address@hidden mailing list. As to getting
> permission from the package maintainer, then I have never experienced a
> maintainer who turned down a good idea :-)
>
> Søren
>
>