[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Merge of pkg-scicomp into the Debian Science Team

[Muammar El Khatib]

Hi Andreas,

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 09:48:13PM -0430, Muammar El Khatib wrote:
>>
>> That's a very good point. I remember that the other day I felt very confused
>> about which team to join. It wasn't clear for me what the reason was in having
>> two groups. I am very sure that the merge will avoid, as it has pointed out,
>> this kind of confusions.
>
> ... and we do not know how many people gave up before actually joining a
> team because they was too confused.
>

That's for sure. It is very very confusing.

>> This is very important, too. Every time that I have read mails regarding this
>> merge I think that there should be developers who in some way are happy with the
>> team they are involved with and that maybe it won't be that easy to achieve
>> this. But I believe that this change would bring its benefits.
>
> IMHO it is not the team (meaning a group of persons) for two reasons:
>  1. As Sylvestre has shown there is an overlap of people
>  2. I assume the people in both teams are nice and friendly persons
>     having no problems to cooperate.
>
> I think it is rather the workflow you have to change which is sometimes
> much harder.  You have to remember to change the Vcs fields in the
> control files of your packages, upload to a different Vcs, subscribe
> another mailing list etc.  That's not a team issue, that's something
> which drains a bit of your own time.  It would be good if those people
> who are agreeing to the merge just would take this time for instance when
> doing the next upload of a package.

I agree, you are right with those statements you wrote above. Maybe I
didn' t expressed myself properly. Thanks for clarifying this.

Regards,
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