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Re: Octave Central (or something like that)
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David Bateman |
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Re: Octave Central (or something like that) |
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Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:46:15 +0100 |
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Paul Kienzle wrote:
>
> On Mar 8, 2007, at 6:24 PM, Søren Hauberg wrote:
>
>> I believe drupal should be able to do most of what we want out of
>> the box, but it doesn't come for free. Drupal requires more from the
>> server than static html pages. It's based around PHP and MySQL so it
>> has some performance requirements. Do we have access to a server that
>> can provide PHP and MySQL? If not, then I don't think we can create a
>> "Octave Central".
>
> Hosting Drupal on sourceforge is apparently possible:
>
> http://starkos.industriousone.com/drupal_on_sourceforge
>
> Ability to upload/download packages is a minimum. Anything else is
> optional.
>
>
> Some desirable features:
>
> * Signed packages.
> * Author email associated with each package (though not necessarily
> visible).
> * Only authors/administrators can update/remove packages --- we can
> avoid passwords if package updates are confirmed by email.
> * Issue tracking is useful so long as it is simple, and the submitter
> doesn't have to have an account.
> * A talk page for each package might be enough, particularly if it is
> echoed to the author email address.
> * Ratings aren't that useful.
> * Download statistics might be nice.
> * Tags would be good, particularly as the number of packages grows.
> To make tags more useful, users should have to choose from a tag
> list. Creating new tags should be difficult.
> * Precompiled binaries for Windows and OS X.
> * Online package docs and source browsing --- make it easy to decide
> whether a package is worth downloading.
>
>
>
>
To me that idea only makes sense if it replaces octave-forge, as we
hardly have the resources to support the effort of maintaining a single
site, and so I don't see us maintaining two different sites..
Regards
David
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