From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Mar 17 03:13:32 2004 Subject: Re: printing errors in octave/matlab From: Per Persson To: Paul Kienzle Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:13:04 +0100 On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 05:09AM, Paul Kienzle wrote: > >Wikis do have a big problem in that they are 'pull' documents. I'm >not very good at checking them, especially the inactive ones like >http://wiki.octave.org. For example, I did not know that Michael Creel >posted a "request for comments" on the interface to the optimization >package even though I suggested that he do so. > >Unless the wiki maintainers get aggressive and figure out some >way to turn it into a 'push' medium, I don't think it will work for our >community. One possibility might be to add an RSS feed with RecentChanges. For sites with a fairly low update rate like this it works reasonably well and shouldn't be too difficult. Maybe we could also syndicate stuff across the different octave-related pages (octave/octave-forge/wiki etc.). /Per PS. In case anyone is unfamiliar with RSS, see http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/ ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------