Re: [gentoo-science] Gentoo science status

[François Bissey]

Hi all,

On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:33:46 Markus Dittrich wrote:
> Hi Sébastien,
>
> Thanks for the nice summary of the current state
> of affairs.
>
> >   We also need to know whether we still want a leader. Some time ago
> >   the question was raised, but got no definite answer.
>
> I think if we decide that we want a leader we should clearly
> define what we expect her/him to do. We're a very diverse
> bunch and the packages in science.g.o span a wide range of
> fields so I am not 100% convinced that a lead will necessarily
> be very effective. On the other hand, there are a few things
> that definitely need improvement, documentation and eclasses
> being some candidates here, and it might be nice to have somebody
> who feels responsible and coordinates/delegates a bit. I'd
> probably need a nudge once in a while ;)
>

Actually Gentoo hierarchy is quite pragmatic and flexible, we can have
several leads - but I guess the implication would be to effectively split
into sub-project which is fine if we wanted too.

> > * Documentation:
> >   We need to revamp our project documentation. I started some doc in
> >   our overlay [1] long time ago, but feel free to update, propose
> >   patches or rewrite it entirely if you don't like it. Denis had some
> >   electronics docs in his site, so we could also merge it. A wiki would
> >   be very nice, but first it would be worth checking how many people are
> >   actually using Gentoo for science.
>

I am not sure how people are using Gentoo here now. There is me and a
PhD student for sure but the other big user in the NMR lab has left for 
Oxford. I am not sure if they have kept their machine on Gentoo. They 
certainly should know that I can be pinged for problems - actually I get 
pinged for problems with any distro.

Francois