Author: tille Date: 2012-03-13 14:00:06 +0000 (Tue, 13 Mar 2012) New Revision: 9988
Added: trunk/community/bits/ trunk/community/bits/2012-03_bits Log: Commit proposal for Debian Med bits announcement. Please review (specifically paragraph 6 regarding bibliographic data) Added: trunk/community/bits/2012-03_bits =================================================================== --- trunk/community/bits/2012-03_bits (rev 0) +++ trunk/community/bits/2012-03_bits 2012-03-13 14:00:06 UTC (rev 9988) @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@ +Hi, + +in this bits: + 1. Debian Med Bug Squashing Advent Calendar 2011 + 2. Anniversary of Debian Med + 3. Second Debian Med sprint (Southport, 27th-29th January 2012) + 4. Mentoring of Month (MoM) + 5. DDs who came to Debian because of Debian Med + 6. Future plans + 7. General lessons learned + +1. Debian Med Bug Squashing Advent Calendar 2011 +------------------------------------------------ + +In December last year Thorsten Alteholz has started a nice QA +initiative[1a] which might be interesting for other teams next Advent. +The Debian Med team was able to fix about 70 bugs in this time. Thanks +to Thorsten for this nice piece of motivation and thanks to everybody +who took part in the bug squashing. + + [1a] http://debian-med.alteholz.de/advent/ + +2. Anniversary of Debian Med +---------------------------- + +On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 the Debian Med project was first officially +announced. I submitted a short blog posting[2b] about this and +perhaps you might like to see a long sequence of talks[2c] about +this topic. + + [2a] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/01/msg00454.html + [2b] http://debianmed.blogspot.com/2012/01/10-anniversary-of-debian-med-posted-by.html + [2c] http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/ + +3. Second Debian Med sprint (Southport, 27th-29th January 2012) +--------------------------------------------------------------- + +In end of January 2012 the Debian Med team has met to the second +sprint[3a]. As last year I would call this a very successfull event and +I would recommend other teams to instanciate such meetings as well. +Feel free to read my more verbose report[3b]. + + [3a] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/Meeting/Southport2012 + [3b] http://debianmed.blogspot.com/2012/02/report-from-debian-med-sprint-posted-by.html + + +4. Mentoring of Month (MoM) +--------------------------- + +I have started this project[4a] for the following reasons: + * gather more manpower to the team + * strengthen connections to upstream (which might become MoM students) + * help shy people to become more verbose + * to learn myself about potential problems of people who do not feel fit for + packaging tasks +I made a short summary how the first MoM project worked (bottom of [3a]). + + [4a] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM + + +5. DDs who came to Debian because of Debian Med +----------------------------------------------- + +After realising that several members of the Debian Med team finally +became DDs I made a little survey[5a] to find out about their reasons to +become DD / DM. I came to the conclusion that a Blend could be a nice +entry point for people to join Debian because newcomers can identify +themselves with a known topic (the scope of the Blend - in this case +medicine and bioinformatics) first and learn Debian rules in a team with +common interest. This perfectly fits my expectation which I had from +the beginning 10 years ago and I would be very happy if other Blends +would follow this example to be nice, inviting and try to *actively* +ask people for cooperation (see some simple rules which I learned in +this process below). + + [5a] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/Developers + + +6. Future plans +--------------- + +Currently some heavy work regarding bringing bibliographic references +about packages straight into package information is going on. This +topic is specifically interesting in Biology because programs are +frequently connected to some publication about the methods used inside +the code. This topic is as well relevant to Debian Science and +DebiChem. Thanks to the patient work done by Charles Plessy we now have +about 70 packages featuring debian/upstream files [6a] featuring +bibliographic references and there is ongoing work to move these data to +UDD[6b] to enable further usage. We are in the process of final +polishing the format and finishing scripts for the import. If people +are interested to join this effort this would be the right moment to +raise their hand. + + [6a] http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata + [6b] http://wiki.debian.org/UltimateDebianDatabase + +7. General lessons learned +-------------------------- + + I. Do not let wait anybody who wants to do work. + II. Newcomers are frequently shy - try to invite them kindly and + patiently. [4a] + III. Tell people verbosely about your project - it is astonishing + how less people know and what wrong assumptions they make + about your project. + +-- +http://fam-tille.de _______________________________________________ debian-med-commit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-med-commit
