[SCM] Debian Science Policy Manual branch, master, updated. 11aa5940f1721d43002f0b91c8ecd3d504eedf24

[Sylvestre Ledru]

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 11aa5940f1721d43002f0b91c8ecd3d504eedf24
Author: Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at ecranbleu.org>
Date:   Sat Jul 5 14:42:51 2008 +0200

    Stuff about debian science metapackages / Stuff about ITP and RFP

diff --git a/debian-science-policy.xml b/debian-science-policy.xml
index af8246c..5080e4a 100644
--- a/debian-science-policy.xml
+++ b/debian-science-policy.xml
@@ -35,13 +35,13 @@
   <title>Introduction</title>
   <sect1>
     <title>About &DebSci;</title>
-    <para>The goal of the &DebSci; project is to provide a system with all the most important free scientific software in each scientific field.</para>
-    <para>FIXME</para>
+    <para>The main goal of the &DebSci; project is to provide a system with all the most important free scientific software in each scientific field.</para>
+    <para>&DebSci; will also manage the debian-science's metapackages.</para>
   </sect1>
   <sect1>
     <title>How to Contribute</title>
-    <para>A <ulink url="http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/">list of packages</ulink> has been created by the Debian-Med project. Their website contains a long list of software packages in Debian and yet to be packaged.</para>
-    <para>FIXME</para>
+    <para>A <ulink url="http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/">list of packages</ulink> has been created using CDD (Custom Debian Distribution). This website contains a long list of software packages in Debian and yet to be packaged. You can help by packaging them in coordination with the &DebSci;.</para>
+    <para>In the meantime, you can also help us by updating the debian-science's metapackages.</para>
   </sect1>
   <sect1>
     <title>Becoming a Member</title>
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
       </example>
     </sect2>
   </sect1>
+
   <sect1>
     <title>Version Control</title>
     <para>The &DebSci; Project has agreed to use <ulink url="http://git.or.cz/">Git</ulink> as their preferred Version Control System (VCS).</para>
@@ -219,6 +220,58 @@ $ chmod 0775 hooks/post-receive
     <para>Package maintainers are free to use any patch system for packaging but <ulink url="http://packages.debian.org/quilt">quilt</ulink> is preferred.</para>
     <para>If a package is stored in a Package Repository a patch system is not needed technically but the maintainer is free to use one nevertheless.</para>
   </sect1>
+	<sect1>
+	<title>Metapackages</title>
+	<para>Since &DebSci; is also managing the Debian-Science metapackages. Consequently, please update the appropriate metapackage with your new package (more information below).</para>
+	</sect1>
+  <sect1>
+    <title>ITP/RFP reports</title>
+	  <sect2>
+	    <title>Intend To Package (ITP)</title>
+		    <para>When a Debian Science Maintainer is sending an ITP to the BTS, <email>debian-science-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org</email> should one of the receiver of this ITP. Therefore, members of the team will be informed of the on-going work and could provide help.</para>
+	</sect2>
+	<sect2>
+		<title>Request For Packaging (RFP)</title>
+		<para>If a RFP of a scientific software is sent to the BTS, this one could be assigned to the team and added to the CDD package list.</para>
+	</sect2>
+  </sect1>
+</chapter>
+<chapter>
+  <title>Management of the Debian-Science metapackages</title>
+	  <para>&DebSci; is also in charge of the Debian-Science metapackages. These packages provide an easy way for a lambda user to get packages in a specific scientific fields.</para>
+	<sect1><title>Science related metapackages</title>
+	<para>The science related metapackages are:
+	* science-astronomy   packages related to astronomy
+	  * science-biology     packages related to biology
+	  * science-chemistry   packages related to chemistry
+	  * science-electronics packages related to electronics
+	  * science-geography   packages related to geography
+	  * science-linguistics packages related to linguistics
+	  * science-mathematics packages related to mathematics
+	  * science-physics     packages related to physics
+	  * science-robotics    packages related to robotics
+	</para>
+	</sect1>
+	<sect1><title>Common utilities for all sciences metapackages</title>
+
+	<para>Common utilities for all sciences metapackages are:
+  * science-statistics  packages related to statistics
+  * science-typesetting packages related to typesetting
+  * science-viewing     packages related to viewing
+</para>
+	</sect1>
+	<sect1>
+	<title>How to manage this list</title>
+	<sect2>
+		<title>Technically</title>
+		<para>For technical reasons, these files are stored in the <ulink url="svn://svn.debian.org/cdd/projects/science/trunk/debian-science">CDD's VCS</ulink>.</para>
+	<para>Checkout the source tree and edit /tasks/* files. These files contain the list of the packages which will be added to the metapackages.</para>
+	<para>Note that it is also possible to add packages which are not in the Debian archive. These packages will appear on the <ulink url="http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/">CDD task list</ulink>.</para>
+	</sect2>
+	</sect1>
+</chapter>
+<chapter>
+<title>Communication vectors</title>
   <sect1>
     <title>Mailing Lists</title>
     <para>This section briefly explains the purpose of the mailing lists that are under the scope of &DebSci;.</para>
@@ -235,6 +288,10 @@ $ chmod 0775 hooks/post-receive
       <para>The <email>debian-science-commits at lists.alioth.debian.org</email> mailing lists should collect all commit messages from commits to the Package Repositories. All Packages Repositories should have a commit hook that sends commit messages to this list.</para>
     </sect2>
   </sect1>
+  <sect1>
+	<title>Wiki</title>
+	<para>FIXME</para>
+	</sect1>
 </chapter>
 <chapter>
   <title>Maintenance of This Document</title>

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