From maintainers-request at octave dot org Wed Feb  1 11:29:09 2006
Subject: Re: Membership request for group GNU Octave
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>
Cc: octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers at octave dot org>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 12:28:59 -0500

On  1-Feb-2006, Bill Denney wrote:

| I was just able to commit it.  I'm guessing that there is another cron job 
| that will cause the pages to show up on 
| http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/.

I'm not sure whether it is a cron job.  In any case, the page is there
now.  If it does not show up for you, try forcing a reload with your
browser.

| Also, I was able to commit the entire m4 webpage system into the
| site.

And now those pages and the Makefile are also available on the web
site.

| I 
| think that it is useful to leave the make system in there.  It's pretty 
| easy to figure out that macros.m4 has most of the control and the .in 
| files are the specific pages.  It's also pretty easy to edit as it is (I 
| didn't know m4 at all before yesterday, but it was straightforward enough 
| so that I didn't have any problems).

I've never liked committing both source and output files to a CVS
archive, so I still think I would prefer to just have HTML+CSS files
on the web and to keep the pages simple enough that this is all we
need.

If we do decide to keep them, is there some other .htaccess magic that
will keep them and other extraneous files hidden?

jwe