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Hi Folks, |
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below I present to you summary of sci meeting that took place at |
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#gentoo-science on 29.06.2010 20:00 UTC. Full log is available at: |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~xarthisius/gentoo-science_meeting-2010-06-29.log |
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1) current state of herds: |
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sci : main libs are in good shape, though we need to find |
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replacement for devs less active at the moment |
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things to be looked at: blas/lapack |
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sci-physics: currently understaffed, main source of bugs: root and geant |
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people that volunteered to look after the herd: |
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dilfridge, h0nk |
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sci-electronics: lost lead, understaffed at the moment |
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people that volunteered to look after the herd: |
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TomJBE, dilfridge, rafaelmartins |
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possible fresh blood: Stefan Salewski |
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sci-biology: good shape, no big project that are causing troubles |
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sci-chemistry: good shape, though quite big herd, many active |
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maintainers |
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sci-geosciences: gis packages maintained by scarabeus, gdal needs |
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immediate fixing, understaffed |
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sci-mathematics: priority to bump Scilab, lots of big and hard to |
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maintain packages (e.g. octave, singular) |
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people that volunteered to look after the herd: |
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tomka (singular), rafaelmartins (octave and friends) |
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+ grozin already taking care of maxima and friends |
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Sage-on-Gentoo: |
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pretty much well covered by separate discussion on g-sci ml. |
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Issues raised: |
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- pushing patches from sage upstream, possibly in |
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collaboration with python team |
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2) Policies |
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* Introduce testing for demanding packages via e.g pkg_posttest, |
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prepare testing procedures for filing STABLEREQ bugs |
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* peer review of new ebuilds (like in sunrise) on #gentoo-science |
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* extensive QA before moving to main tree (which I volunteered to do |
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* having sci-oriented AT (tomka x86, kiwifb ppc) |
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3) Web page/doc/wiki |
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* project page needs updating (!!!all devs/users please at least add |
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your names/ functions to docs in overlay!!!) |
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* every pkg should have "longdescription" in metadata.xml |
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* @g-overlays is currently working on some solution for git overlay |
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that would give as wiki and some other tools (I suggested redmine to them) |
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4) Priorities |
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- recruitment |
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* java guru - existing or future dev that could help with great |
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number of java using sci packages |
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* CAD guru - person that would take care of freecad and its deps |
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mess (reavertm started to work on it, we should ask if he's interested |
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in joining sci) |
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* "general" guru - we always need new devs... |
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- electing a lead |
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* as a project we should have a lead and organize elections |
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5) Any other business |
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- scarabeus asked us to consider merging sci-* herds into one sci, |
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since: |
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* we don't generate that much of bugs |
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* we are not territorial |
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* most of us is already in more than one sci-* herd |
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TODO list: |
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* send mail to people that have access to sci overlay and are not |
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yet being recruited, if they're willing to become devs (me) |
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* update project page (everybody) |
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* update entries in /var/mail/alias/misc/sci* (everybody) |
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* send mail regarding election (jlec) |
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* search for people that could join us on irc (possibly sunrise |
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contributors) or bugzie (everybody) |
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* contact arch teams about our dedicated ATs (jlec + people involved) |
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Hopefully I haven't missed much :) |
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Cheers, |
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Kacper |
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