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First, thanks to everybody who responded! (not that tehre were many ;)). |
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Interestingly, the most positive result so far seems to be two people |
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expressing interest to join :), so we need at least one more mentor I'd say.. |
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I'll start by refreshing general changes that were proposed: |
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1. Make Scientific Gentoo a top-level and create subprojects |
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- this did not seem to get any complaints. So, when we are done with the |
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mainpart I'll try to update the page, like move it to a proper location, redo |
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the blurb and provide links to subprojects. Then I'll ask corresponding teams |
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to produce some descriptions for the corresponding subprojects (its the |
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same .xml essentially, just change the description paraagraph). But lets |
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first get done with the reorg itself.. |
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2. Create smaller, topical herds to split 316 packages we have under sci right |
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now. |
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- Looks like most people assumed a natural herding of packages by categories |
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(of course sci-libs should not be a separate herd, packages under it should |
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fall under whatever makes sense), so lets try to start by creating a layout |
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that follows. Here are the categories, as they stand now: |
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aldar portage # for fn in sci-*; do echo "$fn: $(ls -1 $fn|wc -l)"; done |
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sci-astronomy: 11 |
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sci-biology: 58 |
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sci-calculators: 26 |
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sci-chemistry: 50 |
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sci-electronics: 34 |
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sci-geosciences: 8 |
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sci-libs: 62 |
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sci-mathematics: 34 |
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sci-misc: 19 |
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sci-visualization: 20 |
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Further is based on a quick glance at ChangeLog's (since I did not get much |
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responce from actual mainatiners ;), so I may have missed somebody/listed |
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somebody extra. Please check and comment accordingly) |
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sci-astronomy: 11 |
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an Ok size I'd say, devs: |
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morfic, phosphan, zx, ribosome, aliz, corsair, mr_bones_ |
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sci-biology: 58 |
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rather large, may be worth splitting more, no particular suggestions yet |
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though, devs: |
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ribosome, blubb, corsair, j4rg0n, mcummings, sediener, pbienst, apokorny, |
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hansmi?, phosphan, lostlogic? |
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sci-calculators: 26 |
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split off math at some point IIRC (or was that a discussion that it should be |
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separate and it started like that from the inception?). size: Ok, devs: |
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centic?, cryos, ribosome, spyderous?, many people who appear one or twice.. |
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sci-chemistry: 50 |
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may be worth splitting up as well. One suggestion is to make a category for |
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sci-crystallography. I seem to have persuaded Jan Marten Simons to at least |
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try :). If he indeed is willing to take on this subject it may be well worth |
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creating this category, or at least herd.. |
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devs: |
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spyderous, markusle?, phosphan, marcus, hannes, ribosome?, kugelfang, |
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agriffis, hansmi? |
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sci-electronics: 34 |
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Ok size, devs: |
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calchan, chrb?, agriffis?, phosphan, ribosome, blubb?, plasmaroo, hansmi, |
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cryos?, gustavoz? |
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sci-geosciences: 8 |
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good size (for maintainers :)), devs: |
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ribosome, spyderous, cryos, nerdboy, mholzer? |
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sci-mathematics: 34 |
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Ok size. There were calls to split it into symbolic and numeric, also -proof |
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was suggested (but I understand the packages for that one are not in the tree |
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yet). 3-tier categories might be nice here :) (as in sci-math-symbolic, |
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sci-math-numeric..). devs: |
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plasmaroo, agriffis?, mattam, cryos, ribosome?, markusle, spock, phosphan |
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sci-misc: 19 |
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Size is Ok, but, if we follow the idea, should probably stay under sci (herd) |
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devs: |
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cryos, hansmi?, phosphan, ribosome, kugelfang?, pbienst, blubb? |
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sci-visualization: 20 |
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Ok size, may be combined with -calculators? or -math? (herding, if it makes |
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sense, category should stay), devs: |
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markusle, phosphan, ribosome, cryos, kugelfang, latexer?, j4rg0n?, corsair?, |
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spyderous |
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Furthere, |
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sci-cad was suggested and it looks like there may be a critical mass of > 5 |
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packages, but more planning is necessary on this one.. |
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There was a suggestion for sci-phonetics or sci-linguistics. There is a dev |
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(translator's team, so he will need to be mentored for the "generic |
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development") who is willing to take on those, however I first need to see |
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how many packages would be there. If anything it will be good to have him as |
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a part of the team, even if this does not qualify for a full category (but |
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still should be good for herd I guess..) |
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There were talks about creating sci-physics category, however I cannot find |
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traces of that atm (or was it on irc?). If there really are apps for |
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sci-physics it can start combined with sci-astronomy (or not, need a list of |
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packages..) |
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Any comments on the structure? Also, while sci-xxx is a "natural" name for the |
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category (considering our present layout) it is somewhat cumbersome for the |
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herd. I guess sci- part may be dropped, then, should the rest stay spelled |
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out or people would prefere shortcuts, like math for mathematics, etc? |
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George |
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