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Olivier Fisette wrote: |
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>Familiarity with one or more scientific packages already in |
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>Portage, and willfulness to maintain them up-to-date and |
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>bug-free would be a plus. We currently have no maintainer for |
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>important packages such as GNU Octave, Maxima or the Staden |
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>Package. A problem I have with scientific software is that I |
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>find it hard to test when it applies to a field I am not |
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>familiar with. This is probably the case with everybody in the |
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>sci herd. ;-) |
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Well ... I don't use Octave, but I am learning how to use Maxima. |
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Maintaining the Maxima ebuild, on the other hand, is mostly knowing how |
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to deal with the Common Lisp Controller and the four flavors of Lisp |
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that will execute Maxima (most of the time -- check some of the bugs |
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I've filed :). That's the stuff I don't know. |
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>Since we have time constraints ourselves, we understand potential |
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>recruits may only have a few hours during one day of the week to |
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>do Gentoo development, and that is Ok. However, if you don't |
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>think you will be able to dedicate at least an hour or two a |
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>week on average, I am not sure it would be profitable to invest |
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>time and efforts in the mentoring process. |
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I probably spend at least that much time *testing* open source software |
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a week. Let's say half of Saturday for a start. But I test a variety of |
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stuff, not just science packages. How big of a leap is it from being a |
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hard-core beta tester like myself to actually maintaining a package? |
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