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Commits: d0dd9e83 by Andreas Tille at 2020-06-04T15:26:47+02:00 Preparation for announcement mail of second Debian Med hackathon - - - - - 1 changed file: - + 202006_Debian-Med_hackathon.md Changes: ===================================== 202006_Debian-Med_hackathon.md ===================================== @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +# Second Debian Med COVID-19 hackathon + +Planning the second Debian-Med COVID-19 hackathon + +Dear Debian Community, + +Debian Med joined the virtual (online) [COVID-19 Biohackathon from April 5-11](https://github.com/virtual-biohackathons/covid-19-bh20), +2020. We considered the outcome a great success in terms of +the approached tasks, the new members we gained and the support +of Debian infrastructure teams (namely the ftpmaster team). + +COVID-19 is not over and the Debian Med team wants to do another +week of hackathon to continue with this great success. We want +to do this from June 15th to June 21th 2020. + +As in the first sprint most tasks do not require any knowledge of biology or medicine, and all +types of contributions are welcome: bug triage, testing, documentation, +CI, translations, packaging, and code contributions. + +1. [Debian related bugs](https://blends.debian.org/med/bugs/covid-19.html) + +2. [Software awaiting packaging](https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/covid-19), please +respond to the RFP with your intent so we don't duplicate work + +3. You can also contribute directly to the upstream packages, linked +from the [Debian Med COVID-19 task page](https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/covid-19). Note: +many biomedical software packages are quite resource limited, even +compared to a typical FOSS project. Please be kind to the upstream +author/maintainers and realize that they may have limited resources to +review your contribution. Triaging open issues and opening pull requests +to fix problems is likely to be more useful than nitpicking their coding +style. + +4. Architectures/porting: Please focus on amd64, as it is the primary +architecture for biomedical software. A secondary tier would be arm64 / +ppc64el / s390x (but beware the endian-related issues on s390x). From a +free/open hardware perspective it would be great to see more riscv64 +support, but that is not a priority right now + +5. The Debian Med team is also trying to [improve the availability of +automated biomedical pipelines/workflows](https://doi.org/10.1007/s41019-017-0050-4) using the +Common Workflow Language open standard. The reference implementation of +CWL is written in Python and there are many [open issues ready for work +that don't require any biomedical background](https://github.com/common-workflow-language/cwltool/issues). + +6. It is very easy to contribute to Debian Med team. We have a lowNMU +policy for all our packages. Merge requests on Salsa are usually +processed quickly (but please ping some of the latest Uploaders of the +package to make sure it will be noticed). Even better if you ask for +membership to the team and push directly to the salsa repository. + +7. The [debian-med-team-policy](https://med-team.pages.debian.net/policy/) should answer all questions how to +contribute. + +8. There is a [work-needed wiki](https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/2020-covid19-hackathon/-/wikis/COVID-19-Hackathon-packages-needing-work) that will help keep track of who is working on which projects. + +9. There is also a [NEW requests wiki](https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/2020-covid19-hackathon/-/wikis/NEW-Requests) where we can request expedited NEW processing to support this effort. + +During the hackathon we will coordinate ourselves via the the Salsa coordination page, Debian Med mailing list and IRC: + +* https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/2020-covid19-hackathon/-/wikis/Covid-19-hackathon +* https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/ +* https://wiki.debian.org/IRC +* irc://irc.debian.org/debian-med +* https://jitsi.debian.social/DebianMedCovid19 View it on GitLab: https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/2020-covid19-hackathon/-/commit/d0dd9e830a6fa817f9218e1fae9bb9dd03bc8373 -- View it on GitLab: https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/2020-covid19-hackathon/-/commit/d0dd9e830a6fa817f9218e1fae9bb9dd03bc8373 You're receiving this email because of your account on salsa.debian.org.
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