On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi Felipe, > > thanks for your interest in Debian Science. > > On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 06:29:32AM -0200, Felipe Figueiredo wrote: >> I have developed two scientific simulators of biological interest >> [1,2], and want to include them in Debian. > > Cool - I think you did the right step to ask on a team list. While > Debian Science is perfectly fine we deal with (micro-)biology basically > inside the Debian Med team. I'm not fully sure whether MMRRSim[1] fits > that medical scope so well but I'm pretty sure about TRepid[2].
Yes, TRepid is well suited for debian-med. MMRRSim is applicable in the ecology field, not necessarilly medical one, which is why I submitted the initial request for help to d-science instead of d-med. I hope this was ok. > I'd recommend having a look into the Debian Med team policy document [0] > because I have the strong feeling that most of your questions are Thanks for the pointer, it seems to have very much of what I need for now. I will take a look at it later this week. > answered. Yes, it is correct that you should provide some downloadable > versioned tarball of your software and if you do not mind using Git > rather than bzr (well, we need to restrict the number of VCS somehow to > make sure not every team member needs to become a "various VCS expert") > you can commit your debian/ packaging to the Debian Med team Git (or SVN I expected this might be the case, since bzr does not seem to have a major user base, at least compared to git. When I started using it, it really seemed to have a softer learning curve, and now I'm very much used to it. I don't mind using git, though, especially since AFAIUI it should be easy to migrate to/from git/bzr. Just to be sure I'm following you: the packaging will no longer be done in the upstream site, but rather debian itself? After I fix the packaging as per [0], it will all be migrated to a debian server and mantained there? Then, the current packaging branch in LP will be abandoned. > if you prefer this). Everything is verbosely written down[0] - feel free > to contact us on the list in case there might be some open questions > remaining. Great! I do have several questions. What about bug reporting? I'd prefer to check for users feedback in only one place, which I setup upstream in launchpad (as opposed to one bug tracker per distro - I also intend to eventually submit to Fedora). Another question is about the user base. I don't expect MMRRSim to generate a large user base, as is a somewhat specific case of a more broadly used ecological experiment. Although it is possible, I currently I have no plans to expand it to a more generic simulation environment (as I hope TRepid might be perceived). Does this affect its acceptability in Debian? Also, as soon as the packaging is corrected, and proof-read by experts and machine-reading programs in your pipeline, I think it will be fairly easy to package new versions myself, so I don't mind being the maintainer (or be a part of a maintainer group, if that is ok with you guys). I expect both MMRRSim and TRepid to stabilize development after a while, as seem to be usual in some scientific fields. > Kind regards and thanks for providing these programs as Free Software > > Andreas. > > [0] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html > best regards FF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAEvcxAPYob-mAR70GfwR4+Fz=z1h+d5prxbsdzjgzdwhbo7...@mail.gmail.com
