[pkg-bioc] Re: Genetics Program

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 8 December 2005 at 18:09, Steffen Moeller wrote:
| > What is the story with emboss?  Couldn't find it for the currently ongoing
| > preparations of the next Quantian update. Are there binaries somewhere?
| EMBOSS would be lovely to have, indeed. 

Go and package it, I'm sure Andreas will sponsor it for you :)

| > That is exactly the rub: I am not a BioC user, and I can't be the default
| > maintainer for another few dozen (or dozen squared) packages.
| Could we arrange a BioC repository for Alioth?

Well we *do* have one in pkg-bioc [ which has refocussed on pkg-"CRAN and
BioC" but not been renamed ].

| > Yes, and hopefully one day we'll be able to lean on someone with the need
| > and the know to coordinate that.
| 
| It would help in my understanding if not every maintainer of a package would 
| be required to become a full DD for the submission of updates. The acceptance 
| as a DD is quite a hurdle. 

Just as you "can't be partially pregnant", you can't have packages "partially
inside Debian".  If you are serious about contributing, join so that you can
upload your packages so that they become fully-fledged packages, get
autobuilt, ported, get BTS coverage etc pp

Sponsoring, IMHO, doesn't scale to more than a few packages. I'd be happy to
be proven wrong, but as our recent email exchange showed, I may have
different expectations about QA for Debian packages than you :)  Seriously,
the tediousness of becoming a DD is known but please just stick it out. We
could use your help.

| I have never thought of it, but for BioC it should be possible to have such 
| events sponsored by some pharma directly, be it as Extremadura or elsewhe(re|
| n). Maybe this would be a question for the BioC mailing list, I'll crosscheck 
| with the people I know.

I'd be more interested if the focus was on both CRAN and BioC. Pharma money
may come with strings attached. That said, let us know what you find out. The
more the merrier.

But we *do* have a standing offer to host Debian workshops in Spain. Why
don't we go for it?

Dirk

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