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George Shapovalov wrote: |
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> So, right now I would like to ask for the feedback on the following: |
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> Q1) I would like to hear about the reasons why people are afraid to join the |
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> sci team. You may respond to me personally or raise it on the list, but |
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> please let me/us know about the problems in any case, so that we may address |
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> them! |
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Not so much afraid as spread too thin between my day job and hobby |
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computing. I just wouldn't be able to fill a role beyond tester without |
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giving up something else I really love to do. :) |
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> Q2) Please let me know if you are supporting or occasionally touching some |
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> package under sci-* and, assuming we create more herds, which herd it should |
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> belong to (just make it up as you see fit right now) and whether you would be |
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> willing to add yourself to the alias of that herd or join some subteam if we |
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> create one. I will collect the responces and then compile a proposal for the |
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> new structure. |
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I have some ideas for breaking up the larger chunks. For example, |
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"sci-mathematics" could be broken into symbolic and numeric, the latter |
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picking up "blas-atlas" and "lapack-atlas". I'd move everything from |
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sci-libs into its functional area ... blas-atlas and lapack-atlas to |
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math/numeric, , the graphics libraries to sci-visualization, etc. |
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> Q3) Not relevant to this restructuring, but always usefull: if you know of |
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> some package that you think should really go under sci-something, please let |
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> us know! |
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Everything I use actively is there already, plus a lot of stuff I have |
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no interest in. There are a couple of Markov modeling packages I'd like |
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to see that are in pretty good shape -- PRISM from |
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http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~dxp/prism/ and PEPA Workbench from |
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ttp://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s9905941/jPEPA/. Neil Gunther's "PDQ" |
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(http://www.perfdynamics.com/Tools/PDQcode.html) would be a nice |
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addition. A good open-source discrete event simulator would be nice. The |
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most popular seems to be C++SIM (http://cxxsim.ncl.ac.uk/) |
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> And to finish it all up :) |
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> Q4) If you are a user but would like to be involved more actively, or you have |
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> to run that particular package for your work but it sits in bugzilla for ages |
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> and no developer seems sensible enough to take it up, please let us know too. |
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Yeah, but see Q1 :). |
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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky |
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http://linuxcapacityplanning.com |
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