Re: Octave Forge -- Looking for a new leader

[c.]

On 8 Jan 2017, at 16:59, Julien Bect <address@hidden> wrote:

> My opinion about the second option (transforming OF into a collection of 
> externally hosted repos and/or tarballs) : this would be very drastic change 
> of philosophy,

I think this is one moment where we have the opportunity to make "drastic" 
changes ...

> and...
> 
> 1) It only partially solves the problem, since the release of a package means 
> updating the web site both to let it point at the new release

not really, see below

> (unless we define a standard way to find it on the external site),

yes this is one possibilty, but there are other options as well e.g. we could 
maintain the list in a svn/mercurial/git repository

> and to update the documentation (unless we also stop distributing a 
> documentation of the OF web site ?).

my opinion is that package maintainers should also maintain their own 
documentation website.
octave.org can just have a link to the documentation.

> 2) And again, I believe that it requires as above a comprehensive set of 
> tools for automated checking of formal correctness (unless we accept the idea 
> that OF is a collection of links without any garantee of quality ?).

Is this really that bad an option? 
In what way do we "garantee" quality right now?
And how exactly do we define "quality" now?

c.