Re: Working on nnet package

[Julien Bect]

Le 02/01/2017 à 21:50, c. a écrit :
> On 1 Jan 2017, at 19:25, Nir Krakauer <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi Francesco,
> >
> > I agree with your approach. Matlab's Neural Network Toolbox is fairly widely 
> > used. It would be a good thing to have a drop-in replacement in Octave. I 
> > suggest that once you are happy with a set of your changes, you can post a 
> > notice to the patch tracker and someone can review it for pushing to the Forge 
> > repository.
> I don't think this is a viable approach.
>
> The nnet package is currently unmaintained, so probably nobody cares and nor
> understands the existing code. It is very unlikely that anyone will ever take
> the time to review Francesco's changes.
>
> Francesco has already proven his skills and commitment while working on GSoC, so
> I would suggest instead to mark Francesco as the new maintainer of nnet and let
> him do the changes directly.

Carlo,

I don't think there is such a thing as "mark[ing] Francesco as the new 
maintainer"... as long as the package is considered unmaintained ;-)

Joking aside: I agree with you that Francesco should be given dev 
permissions if he is interested in working on nnet (since, as you said, 
it is very unlikely that someone will want to review his patches).

> But I don't know who could do this right now ...

Any OF admin can do it, I think, but... Who are the admins of the OF 
project, presently?

@++
Julien