[pkg-bioc] Hello!

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Hi Johannes,

On 8 June 2006 at 15:42, Johannes Ranke wrote:
| Dear CRAN and BioC packagers,
| 
| Some time ago I have converted my own CRAN package drfit to a Debian
| package, just using the debian/ subdirectory of one of the packages
| maintained by Dirk. Since I don't really have a strong need for the
| package I created, I did not pursue this further.
| 
| Now I just read the latest R News issue and thought it would be 
| great to have the doBy package in Debian. Other packages that I 
| use are odesolve and drc, so there are some starting points...
| 
| Some comments so far:
| 
| 	- The project summary obviously doesn't represent the current scope
| 	  of the project. It would be good to rephrase the sentence to say 
| 	  something like:
| 
| 	  "Collaborative packaging for packages for GNU R from CRAN
| 	  (cran.r-project.org) and the Bioconductor project [www.bioconductor.org]
| 	  "Analysis of genomic data based on GNU R".
| 
| 	- Is it possible to edit the anonymous CVS instructions to mention
| 	  the module name "tools" to check out? My konqueror (3.5.3 from
| 	  Debian sid) doesn't display the cvsweb script output, and I had to
| 	  browse the list archives in order to find out that Frederic
| 	  Lehobey had the same problem. Of course, reading the list
| 	  archives is good when new to the project :)
| 
| My user name, BTW is jranke-guest, in case this is enough to get added
| to the project :) I could take care of a couple of packages
| (dependencies, name mappings and such), but I am not a Debian developer.

You've just been added.  [ I also made Rafael a full-fledged project manager
with all the magic powers Matt and I have; Rafael really knows all the right
alioth tricks ] 

I would welcome enhancements / clarifications on the web pages -- I also find
some of the text Steffen put there about the 'mission statement' a little,
err, well, confusing.  So if you have some ideas, why don't you run them by
here for checks and otherwise go ahead.

But just to clarify: This project isn;t about maintaining CRAN/BioC packages
in Debian.  It could be -- up for discussion.  So what is it?  We're trying
to write script(s) to automate the process and have fragments that sort-of do
the job, albeit clumsily.  So don't expect doBy in Debian just like that. [
You can of course prepare a package and seek a sponsor in the usual Debian
ways. ]

Now the good news is that while we didn't get the Google Summer of Code
project I had suggested on the Debian wiki, we did get a show of hands from
Andrew (CC'ed, Hi Andrew!) who wants to work on this during the summer even
without Google sponsorship. Way to go Andrew!!  [ And don't forget to
register yourself on alioth.debian.org so that we can add you too ... ]  So
maybe in a few months time we do indeed have the infrastructre to do regular
Debian builds of large chunks of CRAN and/or BioC.  Would be nice ...

Now, for the current Perl code, I have a slightly modified version at home
that isn't fully complete. I may comment some experimental bits out and check
that back in.

Cheers, Dirk

 
| Kind regards,
| 
| Johannes
| 
| -- 
| Dr. Johannes Ranke                 jranke at uni-bremen.de
| UFT Bremen, Leobenerstr. 1         +49 421 218 8971 
| D-28359 Bremen                     http://www.uft.uni-bremen.de/chemie/ranke
| 

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