Re: [gentoo-science] Gentoo science status

[Björn Thorwirth]

Hi All!

I want to support gentoo-science and especially sage-on-gentoo. I'm also
interested to become official gentoo dev. Whats the way to go .. where
can is tart?

best regrads,

Bjoern Thorwirth
 
Am Mittwoch, den 03.02.2010, 09:38 -0800 schrieb Sébastien Fabbro:
> Hello all,
>
> I wanted to get heads up for our science project.
>
> * Manpower:
>   First our under staffed recruitment team found some time to
>   turn Justin Lecher (jlec) an official Gentoo developer who
>   hasn't stopped into helping for the science and chemistry packages.
>   Welcome Justin!
>   We have a couple of people also in the mentoring process who will be
>   great new addition to the team. And as always we need more hands. So
>   anyone interested, contact the sci team.
>
>   We also need to know whether we still want a leader. Some time ago
>   the question was raised, but got no definite answer.
>
> * Bugs:
>   I have not done the counts, but I see we are actually improving quite
>   a bit and killing a lot of old and nasty bugs. I think we are still
>
> * 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.
>   One another simple thing is also add a <longdescription> tag in the
>   metadata.xml of our packages which I think useful to discover quickly
>   a new package and give credits for upstream.
>
> * Projects:
>   - Do not forget to test the g-octave project from Raphael [2], he
>     needs feedback.
>   - Sage on Gentoo [3] is slowly but surely becoming a reality thanks to
>     Christoper and Francois.
>   - A reminder for all of you to test the multiple MPI implementation
>     system [4] put together by Justin Bronder
>   - I plan to update the blas-lapack and the Fortran frameworks with
>     long overdue package updates before the Summer. Contact me if you
>     want to help.
>
> [1] http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/sci.git;a=tree;f=docs
> [2] http://g-octave.rafaelmartins.eng.br/
> [3] http://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo
> [4] http://dev.gentoo.org/~jsbronder/empi.xml
>
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Sebastien
>
>
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Bjoern Thorwirth, Zentrum für Medizinische Biotechnologie,
Universität Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstr. 2, 45117 Essen, Germany
phone [phone], bjoern.thorwirth@×××××××.de