On 16 Nov 2010, at 21:20, Philip Nienhuis wrote: > > Which brings up a relating issue: do we need some sort of quality review for > accepting scripts or packages, or do we just accept everything which comes > along? > > I only remember my first contribution to octave-forge 10 years back (funm.m) > which was about as bare as the vtk scripts recently sent in by Levente Torok. > Paul Kienzle helped me out to make them more robust; I suppose I now can > return that favor to the community, but like PK at that time, I can only do > some cosmetics.
Usually the policy for accepting functions in octave forge is much less strict than for Octave, usually comments about coding standards like the ones you gave about savevtk are meant as just suggestions, but if some code is useful and works correctly it is usually not rejected because it is not up to the same standards at that of the Octave source code. I am not responsible for this choice, but I think this policy makes sense for attarcting more contributions to OF, once new developers get more involved they will probably take care themselves of cleaning up thei own functions. > We didn't hear from the author (Levente Torok) since several weeks now. > It's sometimes a bit difficult to weigh our own time for tuning scripts sent > in by passing-by users against the usefulness of those scripts. > If they are useful I don't mind putting in some effort; OTOH if the scripts > are of little general use we should invest our time in more urgent stuff. > Someone more knowledgeable in the field of vtk ...dx .... should have a say > here. Please? > Philip c. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today http://p.sf.net/sfu/msIE9-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
