Contribution for Octave pakages

[Søren Hauberg]

lør, 09 08 2008 kl. 10:31 +0200, skrev Francesco Riganti:
> I would like to contribute to improvement of same pakages of Octave at 
> sourceeforge.net
> Please, does someone know how to do it? I know that it is necessary to 
> make a own occount, ok, but what is the next step? Do I Need to Ask 
> further Permission (pass and user) from authors of pakages?

>From a practical point of view new contributors to the Octave-Forge
packages go through the following steps:

1) Tell us about the change you propose on the
octave-dev at lists.sourceforge.net mailing list.

2) Before getting commit access to the repository you should show some
code on the mailing list. This step is just there to make sure that
people with commit access actually provide working code, so its mostly a
formality.

3) If your suggested change is accepted (it almost always is, because
Octave-Forge is a very open project), you will be given commit access to
the repository. This requires a sourceforge account.

For more info, read http://octave.sourceforge.net/developers.html, or
ask at the octave-dev at lists.sourceforge.net mailing list. As to getting
permission from the package maintainer, then I have never experienced a
maintainer who turned down a good idea :-)

Søren