Re: octave-financial maintenance

[Carnë Draug]

On 28 September 2015 at 17:45, Parsiad Azimzadeh
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I spoke to Carnë 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

Hi Parsiad

Apologies for the delay in taking care of this.

I have finally got around to review your last patch.  It looks good and
I pushed it.  I have now given you push access to all the Octave Forge
repositories.

Welcome and have fun.

Carnë