Re: Adding functions to octave base?

[fork]

fork <forkandwait <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Is there a policy on adding new functions the octave base?  We have a
> "miscellaneous" in the m/ directory where they could go, or extras/ or
> nonmatlabcompliant/ etc, etc.  
> 
> I have a couple of infrastructure routines (pushd and popd, ifelse(), and
> testall(), at the moment) that I use fairly regularly that I can imagine would
> be useful to people besides myself.  Plus I would love to not have to worry
> about where did I put my latest copy of these m-files...

I apologize for getting in a knot about Octave-Forge, but ... can anyone answer
the above question?  Should I just send in a patch to the savannah site with
code and see what happens?