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

[Ondrej Certik]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Chris Walker
<chrisw at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, feel free to fix it.

>
> 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?

I didn't know about this page... I thought our webpage is the wiki.
That's a problem of bad organization. :)

Ondrej