Re: Proposal for a team of admins

[Sebastian Schöps]

c. wrote
> On 12 Jan 2017, at 13:23, Julien Bect <

> julien.bect@

> > wrote:
> 
>> Nobody can prevent you from building such a list (and don't misinterpret
>> me: I like the idea and would probably contribute to this as well).  But
>> then this is not the same thing as "Octave Forge packages", 
> 
> So let us discuss how to make this happen, first of all where do you think
> it should be hosted?
> 
> Options I see are:
> 
> * octave.org
> * octave.sf.net
> * wiki.octave.org
> 
>> and I just don't think the OF admins should have much to do with it.
> 
> Depends on where you want the list to appear, if it goes on
> "octave.sf.net" of course OF leadrs will be involved.

Did you read my suggestions in "OF package maintainers please vote: Scope of
OF?"? I guess not. There are too many threads; it is the most inefficient
discussion ever.

Let me elaborate on my proposal: we host a list in some repository, which
could be "address@hidden" or a new one e.g. "address@hidden". We store the
list as xml file which includes for each package name, version, url and a
hash for the current release (possibly also maintainer etc). Then we extend
the "pkg" command or add a new command, e.g. "agora" that allows the
following

(a) url (pkg install -url http://somewhere/package";) or 
(b) package name ("pkg install -external name"). 

One might allow installation from a repository in addition to the
package.tar.gz format.

Sebastian 

P.S.: I have several repositories that i never turned into a package but
that I would enjoy to share in such a way.



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