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Hello all, |
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I wanted to get heads up for our science project. |
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* Manpower: |
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First our under staffed recruitment team found some time to |
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turn Justin Lecher (jlec) an official Gentoo developer who |
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hasn't stopped into helping for the science and chemistry packages. |
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Welcome Justin! |
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We have a couple of people also in the mentoring process who will be |
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great new addition to the team. And as always we need more hands. So |
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anyone interested, contact the sci team. |
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We also need to know whether we still want a leader. Some time ago |
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the question was raised, but got no definite answer. |
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* Bugs: |
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I have not done the counts, but I see we are actually improving quite |
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a bit and killing a lot of old and nasty bugs. I think we are still |
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* Documentation: |
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We need to revamp our project documentation. I started some doc in |
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our overlay [1] long time ago, but feel free to update, propose |
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patches or rewrite it entirely if you don't like it. Denis had some |
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electronics docs in his site, so we could also merge it. A wiki would |
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be very nice, but first it would be worth checking how many people are |
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actually using Gentoo for science. |
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One another simple thing is also add a <longdescription> tag in the |
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metadata.xml of our packages which I think useful to discover quickly |
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a new package and give credits for upstream. |
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* Projects: |
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- Do not forget to test the g-octave project from Raphael [2], he |
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needs feedback. |
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- Sage on Gentoo [3] is slowly but surely becoming a reality thanks to |
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Christoper and Francois. |
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- A reminder for all of you to test the multiple MPI implementation |
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system [4] put together by Justin Bronder |
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- I plan to update the blas-lapack and the Fortran frameworks with |
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long overdue package updates before the Summer. Contact me if you |
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want to help. |
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[1] http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/sci.git;a=tree;f=docs |
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[2] http://g-octave.rafaelmartins.eng.br/ |
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[3] http://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo |
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[4] http://dev.gentoo.org/~jsbronder/empi.xml |
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Best, |
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Sebastien |
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