Re: Fork of Octave Forge video package

[Carnë Draug]

On 9 October 2013 13:57, Yufei Yuan <address@hidden> wrote:
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> From: Carnë Draug
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> Sent: 10/08/13 05:50 PM
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> Subject: Fork of Octave Forge video package
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> Hi
>
> I just came across the fork you have recently started on github of
> Octave's Forfe video package[1]. Would you consider to develop on the
> package which is currently unmaintained, rather than forking it? We
> have recently prepared a mercurial repo of it[2] in the hopes to ease
> other users in developing it.
>
> You started your fork from the package version 1.0.2 which was
> released more than 4 years ago. There has been more changes to the
> package since to make up for the changing API of ffmpeg.
>
> Carnë
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> [1] https://github.com/tufei/octave-forge-video
> [2] https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/video/
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> Hi,
>
> Thanks for bringing the Hg repo to my attention. I am new to Octave and only
> found the video package from octave-forge website. So why is that package
> not updated yet if we've had an updated version in the repo?

Because no one bothered to prepare a release. The package is
unmaintained so while developers accumulate patchs on it, no one
decided that the changes were good enough to actually release it (or
not worth the effort).

> I thought it's faster track to have something working out there rather than
> waiting for it to be reviewed or having check-in privilege, especially since
> it appears that there is no maintainer for the package at this point of
> time.
>
> I would be more than happy to have the fork merged back to the official Hg
> repo if I could be granted the permission.

We changed from svn to hg exactly to avoid that. Could you host a
clone of it with your changes on it somewhere (bitbucket for example
since github is git only) where we could pull the changes from? Just
create an entry in our patch tracker [3] asking for us to pull changes
for you clones. If you can't host it somewhere, you can submit hg
changesets as files.

Carnë

[3] https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?func=additem&group=octave