Re: NEWS and release announcement for 5.1 on the web site

[Andrew Janke]

On 3/2/19 3:58 AM, Kai Torben Ohlhus wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 11:38 PM John W. Eaton <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     I added two files to the octave web pages repo in the following
>     changeset:
>
>     https://hg.octave.org/web-octave/rev/afa95c42b86b
>
>     and ran "make deploy"  It seems to have worked.  If anyone notices
>     problems, please let me know.
>
>     I will post a release announcement to the mailing lists next.
>
>     jwe
>
>
>
> The update looks good to me, all links are working!  Good to hear that 
> I'm not the only one able to manage octave.org <http://octave.org> 
> updates ;-)
>
> Just a final nuance is to increment the "community-news-page-serial":
>
> https://hg.octave.org/web-octave/rev/f58b6e395216
>
> Then all Octave users who chose to be informed about updates will 
> receive a message at next startup.
>
> Thanks for all the release effort,
>
> Kai

And to update the channel topic message on the freenode #octave IRC 
channel. It currently says "Octave 4.4 is out!", so IRC users get the 
notification on next logon.

Cheers,
Andrew