[Cdd-commits] r1172 - projects/med/trunk/papers/09_osehc_porto

[CDD Subversion Commit]

Author: tille
Date: Thu Oct 30 19:04:14 2008
New Revision: 1172

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   projects/med/trunk/papers/09_osehc_porto/paper-text.tex
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More stuff about blends


Modified: projects/med/trunk/papers/09_osehc_porto/paper-text.tex
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--- projects/med/trunk/papers/09_osehc_porto/paper-text.tex	(original)
+++ projects/med/trunk/papers/09_osehc_porto/paper-text.tex	Thu Oct 30 19:04:14 2008
@@ -465,6 +465,7 @@
 complete system for all tasks in medical care which is build
 completely on free software.
 
+
 \subsubsection{Flexibility in supporting small user groups}
 
 On the organisational side the project tries to attract people working
@@ -582,23 +583,39 @@
 constantly growing.
 
 
-\section{Discussion}
+\subsubsection{Role inside Debian}
 
-Technically the Debian community has implemented functionalities for
-package management that have not been seen elsewhere. Originally
-motivated to achieve platform independence, all packages in the Debian
-Main distribution are required to be completely compilable and
-installable by a standardised set of commands. For all platforms,
-build daemons fully automated build binary packages upon the package
-maintainer's submission of a new source package.
+The Debian Pure Blends framework was mainly inspired by the \DebianMed
+needs.  Regarding implementation the Debian Edu project -- another
+Blend -- is much more advanced.  There are several reasons for this
+fact.  The main reasons are the availability of software for education
+and the fact that a Norwegian company payed developers to work full
+day on this project.  \DebianMed tried to gain profit from common
+technologies and generalised some tools of Debian Edu for all Blends.
+Moreover inside \DebianMed some new Blend tools were developed which
+enhance the easy build of metapackages.  The latest contribution to
+the Blend framework is a set of automatically generated web pages
+which can be used by any Blend.  For instance there is an overview
+about all the so called tasks (fields like biology, medical imaging,
+practice management) which provides a nice list of all the packages
+including some metainformation and the description of the packages in
+this task.  So the output of the project can be easily viewed at
+\printurl{http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/}{the tasks page
+  of \DebianMed}.
+
+By providing this kind of tools for other Blends as well \DebianMed
+has set some cornerstone in the technical cooperation between user
+oriented projects inside Debian.  This in turn awakes the interest of
+other Debian developers who might provide other tools for \DebianMed.
+
+\section{Discussion}
 
 The \DebianMed project serves as a common platform for all Free
 Software that may be utilised in medical care. Tools developed in
 computational biology is just a part of it because it is an important
-brick in medical science.  With \DebianMed's
-ambition to become the platform of choice for biological work, conform
-with the principles of the
-\printurl{www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy}{Debian
+brick in medical science.  With \DebianMed's ambition to become the
+platform of choice for medical work, conform with the principles of
+the \printurl{www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy}{Debian
   Policy}\cite{debianpolicy}, by the means of the distribution of
 development within the Debian Society, a well established reference
 platform for bioinformatics research and its medical applications has