From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Mar  5 18:13:10 1999
Subject: Re: speeding up Octave development (was: Re: m-code)
From: lash at tellabs dot com
To: doolin at alpha-8 dot CE dot Berkeley dot EDU
Cc: heberf at calvin dot wustl dot edu, help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 18:12:28 -0600 (CST)

> 
> It really seems that the major impediment is 
> structural.  I think that coders will appear
> if the mechanism to organize their contributions
> is in place.  This is of course harder and 
> more time consuming than writing code.
> 

I am not sure that I agree that the problem is
structural.  I don't think John has been ignoring
any code that has been contributed to him.  I don't
think it can get much easier than:

	1. Develop wonderful, well documented functions 
	   for Octave.

	2. Create a diff file.

	3. Send it to John, and let him integrate it.

Having a CVS repository, or something similar only changes
step 2 a little bit.  Maybe I'm mistaken.


Bill