[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Request to Join Project Scientific Computing Debian Packages

[Ondrej Certik]

Hi Johannes,

> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:15 PM, <noreply at alioth.debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> Johannes Ring has requested to join your project.
>> You can approve this request here:
>> http://alioth.debian.org/project/admin/?group_id=30921.
>>
>> Comments by the user:
>> Hello,
>>
>> my name is Johannes Ring and I work as a Scientific Programmer at Simula
>> Research Laboratory (http://www.simula.no) in Norway. Here at Simula we are
>> focusing on development of software (mostly open source) for
>> scientific computing and most of our researchers/developers are using
>> Debian or Ubuntu as their development platform. We want our software to be
>> as easy to install as possible for people running Debian/Ubuntu and we have
>> therefore set up a couple of repositories, which I am currently the
>> maintainer of. However, it would be even easier for the user if the packages
>> were included in Debian/Ubuntu in the first place (no need to add sources).
>> In that respect, I have been asked by my project leader Ola Skavhaug and
>> Anders Logg, which is one of the main developers of the
>> FEniCS software suite (www.fenics.org), to try to become an official
>> Debian maintainer so that I can help in getting our packages into
>> Debian/Ubuntu. Since I am a Debian/Ubuntu guy (started with Debian in 2000
>> but switched to Ubuntu Breezy in 2005 when I couldn\'t get my new Thinkpad
>> to work in Debian) I would very much like to contribute in the development
>> of Debian by maintaining and adding new packages. I have been aware of the
>> pkg-scicomp group for some time now and used several of the packages that
>> are available there (like scotch, slepc, and trilinos), so I am sure that

If you could help me fix slepc, it'd be nice. BTW, I just spoke with
Jose Roman, the main author of it
here at PMAA08 (http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/pmaa08/) and if everything
goes well I think the next version will be opensource (LGPL),
which is a great news.

>> this is the right group for me to join. Hopefully, that is okay with you.
>>
>> If you want to have a look at my two repositories, they can be found at
>>
>> 1. http://www.fenics.org/ubuntu
>> 2. http://packages.simula.no
>>
>> The first one is for FEniCS, which is a free software suite for automated
>> solution of differential equations, and the second one is for other Simula
>> software and some external packages. The packages is far from perfect, but
>> nothing that can\'t be fixed.
>>
>> Hope to join you soon :-)

Excellent, looking forward.

Ondrej