Hallo, I had joined the bio.tools folks this afternoon for a pre-meeting of an EU project to give the registries a boost. I was asked what Debian would want from them. And while I do not think that my answer was completely off, we should possibly come up with a consensus on this list. Here my shot, hoping to seed further discussions, not only among current contributors to Debian Med:
* Awareness - something better than our task lists - of Debian as a whole - of packages Debian offers - for the possibiliy that + Debian can be joined and that there is mentoring for newbies + companies offer support for Debian/Ubuntu where this is desired * Guidance - something better than our Excel sheet - packages that Debian offers for particular tasks/problems/workflows - packages that Debian misses (but conda/guix have or workflow X depends on that is already 90% covered with Debian packages) - pointers to new technical developments that Debian should look at * workflows meta-continuous integration testing - workflows should come with examples how to run them - Debian has reproducible builds - can we have repoducible workflow tests - Some distribution-independent testing environment should compare results between conda/guix/Debian/brew... * Improved compatibility - "apt-get install conda", please. We are not too far from that but need some guidance for the last meters. - avoid "which python installation"-hassle with /usr/bin/python* vs conda installation shebang lines Best, Steffen