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Re: modifications to OF web pages
From: |
Carnë Draug |
Subject: |
Re: modifications to OF web pages |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:53:01 +0000 |
On 18 December 2014 at 11:32, Carlo De Falco <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Carnë,
>
> I see you are making changes to the OF web pages,
> which is a good idea as they can use some renovation.
>
> Here are some comments you may or may not find useful:
>
> 1) http://octave.sourceforge.net/developers.html
>
> * The first sentence does not sound very clear in describing
> the different purposes of Octave core and Octave-Forge.
> This entry in the FAQ probably serves the same purpose better:
> http://wiki.octave.org/FAQ#What_is_Octave-Forge.3F
>
> * "see it's page." should probably read "see its page."
>
> * This page used to contain a description of the package
> directory structure and of the syntax of the DESCRIPTION
> and INDEX files, which you seem to have removed, it would
> be nicer to at least leave in place a link to places where
> the same information can now be found in the manual.
>
> * "you should mention it on the maintainers mailing list."
> would be nice if this test actually linked to the mailing
> list subscription page.
>
> * "only older packages, usually unmaintained exist there now."
> this is simply not true.
Can you submit a patch [1]?
Carnë
[1] http://hg.code.sf.net/p/octave/project-web