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

[Frederic Lehobey]

Hi,

Chris Walker <chrisw at chiark.greenend.org.uk> (2008-07-08 20:27:28) :
> 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.

  You can find this information here too:

http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianScience
(that page could be updated nevertheless).

  With respect to the discussion about joining repositories, it took
place on debian-science mailing list in May. See for example
http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2008/05/msg00053.html (and
messages before and after in the same thread).

  Personally I do not see debian-science and pkg-scicomp as competing
efforts but as complementary ones. From the above discussion I
understand pkg-scicomp has a narrower focus as debian-science which is
mainly a place where to put packages when there is not a better place
but if pkg-scicomp is the better place (as debichem or debian-gis
might be for other topics) then it is perfectly fine. Let the packager
decide which is the repository that better fulfills its needs or
habits (svn, git, single or collaborative maintenance or whatever).

  In any case I think we should notice one each other of every
progress or packaging advances. For example, I learned from
pkg-scicomp-commits Christophe Prud'homme was working on packaging
OpenTurns. This is great news that will raise a lot of interest (I
think for example Adam Powell is also interested in this, I do no know
if he is subscribed to this list, but I suppose he is). Thanks a lot
for your work. But I have not found your ITP yet. Do you plan to
create one (for further reference) or do you plan to upload the
package very soon?

Best regards,
Frédéric Lehobey