Philip Nienhuis wrote:
>> Parsiad Azimzadeh wrote>> Hi all,>>>> I spoke to Carn? on the mailing list in February of 2015 about the>> financial package:>>>>> Without a maintainer, the financial package may even be eventually>>> removed from the list of Octave Forge packages. If you have an interest>>> in the package, are familiar with the subject, and are willing to take>>> the>>> responsibility, the package is yours.>>>> I have previously submitted (through patches on savannah) around 10 clones>> of>> MATLAB functions to the financial package, and recently submitted a hefty>> changset which includes clones of MATLAB's stochastic differential>> equation>> simulation functionality in the financial package>> ( https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?8748 ).>>>> Unfortunately, doing things through the patch tracker is slow. I would>> like>> to>> take on the responsibility of maintaining the package so that I can>> routinely add>> new clones of MATLAB functions and produce releases.>>>> (my PhD thesis is in optimal stochastic control--in particular, its>> applications to>> finance--and hence I am somewhat familiar with the topic)>>>> Thanks,>> Parsiad> > Just to be sure, with "clones" you mean "independent implementations of> Matlab functions written from scratch in Octave language and style without> ever having peeked at the Matlab code"?>> If yes, I'm sure you'll be most welcome as financial package maintainer.>> Philip
That is correct: I take the legalities of backwards-engineering seriously. I have not looked at the MATLAB code to create my contributions.
I have attached my RSA public key for write-access to the repo.
Thanks,
Parsiad
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