On 15 Nov 2009, at 14:04, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> søn, 15 11 2009 kl. 11:08 +0100, skrev Carlo de Falco:
>> After a loooooooong time I finally got a chance to try doing this,
>> the patch to add the upload procedure to the developers webpage is
>> attached.
>> I would have applied it myself but I did not have write permission on
>> that file.
>
> Did you try to commit your changes to SVN or upload them to the web
> server? I've changed some rights on the web server, although I
> couldn't
> change the rights of all files as I didn't have the rights.
I tried to edit the web page directly, I didn't know the web pages
were kept in the repository, are they?
> Does anybody know if there is a way to get 'administrator'-like access
> to our web space?
>
>> Also, the description of the procedure is only theory as in
>> practice I
>> could not
>> really run it because of some errors:
>>
>> 1) I do not have enough privileges to delete the contents of
>> /home/groups/o/oc/octave/htdocs/test/nurbs
>
> I've tried to change rights, so please try again. Basically, I've
> done a
>
> chmod -R g+w htdocs
>
> which used to do the trick. I do, however, get a lot of warnings like
> this one:
well, it did work for me.
> chmod: changing permissions of
> `htdocs/short_package_descriptions/main/
> zenity_short_description.html':
> Operation not permitted
>
> Help would be appreciated.
>> 2) generate_package_html does not seem to work properly on my system:
>> ---------------------------------
>>>> pkg load generate_html
>>>> generate_package_html ('nurbs', 'nurbs-html', 'octave-forge')
>> warning: marking 'nrbkntmult' as not implemented
>
> This warning is usually due to bug in the texinfo markup of the help
> text of the function in question.
no, in this case the function is really not implemented ;)
>> error: `get_alpha_database' undefined near line 200 column 41
>
> I forgot to add this file, but it should be uploaded now. Thanks for
> catching this.
with the latest svn of generate_html the help text export works fine.
> Søren
So, now the developers page is updated:
http://octave.sf.net/test/developers.html
any comments from any package maintainer are very welcome,
personally, I think something could still be done to improve the
release procedure futher,
but having allowed package maintainers to manage their releases
directly is already a giant leap forwrd.
c.
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