Hello everybody,
I am a physicist from Germany. I began using GNU/Linux as my main OS back in
1998 starting with Red Hat Linux 5.0 and going through every single iteration
of Red Hat Linux and Fedora ever since. Throughout these years I have
contributed to Fedora mainly through postings to various Red Hat mailing lists
and by reporting numerous bugs to the Red Hat Bugzilla.
In the context of my research in the fields of theoretical relativistic
astrophysics and numerical relativity I have been using Fedora for
numerical simulations, data analysis, and visualization but also for writing
scientific publications or presentations.
A very popular plotting package used by the astrophysics community is PGPLOT
[1] which, however, is not open source and therefore only available through the
RPMFUSION project [2]. An open source and modern alternative which aims at
becoming a full replacement of the former is and suitable for adoption by
Fedora is the GIZA library [3]. I have started contributing to the upstream
project earlier this year and recently converted the source package from using
a proprietary make system to using GNU Autotools. I have now packaged a
tentative Fedora package of the latest release giza-0.9.4 and submitted it for
package review. The corresponding review request can be found at:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1187030
I further hope that adoption by the Fedora Project would help to increase
GIZA's user base and thus speed up the development process through bug reports,
user requests, and direct contributions to the code base.
Cheers
Joachim Frieben
[1] www.astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/pgplot/
[2] http://www.rpmfusion.org
[3] http://giza.sf.net
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