[Pkg-scicomp-devel] joining debian-science and pkg-scicomp

[Chris Walker]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 07:00:34PM +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Sylvestre Ledru
> <sylvestre.ledru at scilab.org> wrote:
> >
> >> > In the long run I'd really love to see the clans unite and grew into one
> >> > Debian Science team with specialized "subgroups". But there is much more
> >> > to do first and I doubt that everyone is with me in this respect. So
> >> > we'll see where all this goes.
> >>
> >>
> >> http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianScientificComputingTeam says "The
> >> aim of Debian Scientific Computing Team is to provide home for all
> >> scientific packages in Debian. " and doesn't mention
> >> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience (and vice versa).
> >>

And I was being slighlty unfair here - there is a link to
http://pkg-scicomp.alioth.debian.org/ under

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/ContributingToDebianScience.

> >> Perhaps the two could link to each other. If suitable text can be
> >> agreed, I'll volunteer to commit it to the wiki if I'm not beaten to it.
> > Please go for it. Neither of Manuel or I are native english speakers. I
> > am sure you will find a better phrasing than us.
> >
> > Btw, this point concerns also debian-med and debichem.
> 
> Does it look better now:
> 


> http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianScientificComputingTeam

Yes, but it still doesn't make the distinction Scientific computing
software != Scientific software. 

AIUI, scientific computing is a subset of science - specifically it is
the hard core numerically intensive/modelling stuff - used by people who do
experiments on computers, rather than experimentalists who use
computers to collect and analyse data.

Shouldn't there be a link to http://pkg-scicomp.alioth.debian.org/ on
there too?


> 
> ?
> 
> Feel free to edit the wiki.


I'll try to think of something suitable. 

Chris