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Hi all, |
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I would like to call for help for the sci team. Lately, we are taking |
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care of sometimes old packages, sometimes packages that we don't use but |
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are quite popular so we want to keep in the tree. Our time is limited, |
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bug list is barely reducing, and requests for new packages are piling |
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up. |
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There are plenty of interesting projects the sci team could start. But |
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we just don't do because we are understaffed. Examples of such projects |
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are: grid-aware tools, homepage page renewal, more docs, test-suites for |
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packages, more collaboration with hp-cluster. I also know some widely |
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used packages are not in the tree because they need a lot of time to |
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package/maintain. In my field such examples are: iraf and midas in |
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sci-astronomy, geant-4 in hep, R-packages, many numerical libraries, |
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etc... |
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So what could we do to get more help: call for new recruits, convince |
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more devs to join the sci herd, get proxied packages, more overlay |
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maintainers? (in the past, there was a similar thread [1]). I could |
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train a new dev in anyone interested, I would have more time in 2 weeks. |
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Regards, |
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Sébastien |
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[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.science/272 |
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