On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:41:04AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 10:32 -0400, Jan Kurik wrote: > > = Proposed Self Contained Change: Astronomy Spin = > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Astronomy_Spin > > > > Change owner(s): Christian Dersch <lupinix at mailbox dot org > > > > > A Fedora Spin providing a complete toolchain for both amateur and > > professional astronomers. > > > > > > == Detailed Description == > > In both amateur and professional astronomy and astrophysics Linux is > > a very popular operating system. More and more data analysis is > > performed using Python, especially the astropy project is a quite new > > effort providing a professional toolchain. The Astronomy Spin > > provides a complete scientific Python environment (2 and 3) as well > > as the AstrOmatic software. For observational astronomy, KStars > > provides a complete solution for astrophotography using the INDI > > library. In addition to an astronomical collection of packages the > > spin also adds a menu for astronomy to make work more comfortable. > > > > > > == Scope == > > * Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change) > > * Release engineering: Add spin to spin-kickstarts, ensure spin has > > been tested, and release with rest of spins > > * Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change) > > * Trademark approval: Requested > > > I don't really see what benefit there is to having a spin for this. Agreed. It would be better to put effort in packaging Astromatic and possibly more astronomy software.
> It sounds like it might be just as effective to work with the GNOME > Software folks on getting an Astronomy Tools group in the Software app > made highly visible. This would just be a matter of providing good appdata. kstars already has a nice appdata file. When Astromatic is packaged, it should get one too. > We could then just advertise Astronomy-related functionality as a new > feature of Workstation. ... or any other product or spin. Zbyszek -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
