"Jordan Mantha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Egon Willighagen wrote: > >> I'm also part of DebiChem, though unfortunately rather dorment in the > >> last two years... I'll check the discussion asap again, and comment on > >> it to the debichem ML. > > > > Ahh, that's good to know. For my perception only Michael and Daniel > > formed the team. Perhaps you are volunteering to maintain the tasks > > pages for the moment. Its a simple editing of debian/control - like > > files. Just ask me if I should add you to CDD Alioth group ... > > There is also Nicholas Breen and myself who do some work in Debichem. > I'm also a sometimes contributor to Debian Science. I'm sorry if my > lack of emails indicated that I didn't care about your task pages. I > just didn't have any complaints :-) >
AIUI, the goal of Debian Science is to improve support for science in Debian. People differ in their priorities, but some things that I think are important are: Packaging a wide range of useful software with high quality - Making sure these packages don't become out of date - Fixing bugs Advertising/Documenting what software is available and what problems it solves - and perhaps how to use several packages together. Personally I think we should also steer people away from obsolete software. Producing a LiveDVD of science packages > For my part, I'm still trying to figure out what exactly all this > CDD/Blends/Tasks infrastructure stuff is all about. The tasks infrastructure is a way of easily installing packages appropriate to a particular area of science. It also serves to advertise that debian provides those packages. The bugs pages will make it easier to spot if a maintainer has gone MIA/is in need of help by highlighting bugs in a particular area. It also makes it easier for Non DDs and those with limited time to find bugs that they can help with. > I love the > generated pages but I'm not sure what *I* can do to help. Ah yes, that reminds me - I've added some text to the "Contributing to Debian Science" on the wiki <http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience> with suggestions about how DDs and non debian developers can help. I'm not sure I link sufficiently well to the "Efforts that could be undertaken". Comments please - either here, or by editing the wiki. Am I repeating something that is described elsewhere? What have I missed? > What exactly > does it mean to maintain these task pages? Adding new packages to appropriate tasks. Removing obsolete packages. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
