On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 06:05:11AM +0000, Sri Girish Srinivasa Murthy wrote:
> Hello,
> I am graduate student in Luebeck, where Steffen is also located, and mostly
> working in the (almost) neighbouring Max Planck Institute to study
> Microbioata in Skin and Gut of Mouse. As an Ubuntian I joined Debian Med two
> weeks or so ago and with Steffen I have done some packaging with the help of
> Steffen (denoiser,python-cogent, python-pynast, qiime, mothur),
I have added all you ITPed packages to the Debian Med task and you can
view the entries on the tasks page[1] for biology. I'm really keen on
hearing your opinion as a newcomer about this page as a whole because it
has grown quite large. We somehow are considering a split but we have
no good idea what criterion for a split would make sense. Just try to
bring in some idea in case you are looking from a different perspective
as we die before.
> an upload only pending the confirmation of upstream that this is ok to
> redistribute from the respective Authors but they somehow seem to be all on
> vacation.
Well, if this is the *only* reason to wait I would not mind very much.
It is considered as "good style" to ask authors but you do not really
need a permission in case the license is free. So provided that the
license does not contain any nasty pitfalls I would go for the upload
(or Steffen for the sponsoring) and I would write a second e-mail to the
authors somehow like:
"As I have informed you in my last mail I have builded Debian packages
from your software. They are now available on the Debian mirror and
will be released in the next stable Debian release. I hope you like
this effort."
Especially the last bit to meet the Squeeze freeze sounds a good
argument to upload now and not later. So the package might get some
testing (autobuilders might detect problems etc).
> I have strong interest to learn more about cloud computing and use it for NG
> sequencing and the data analysis. Steffen set up a server for this that I am
> going to share. Whoever on this list feels like discussing along, please drop
> me a quick Hello.
I would like to say "Hello" in the name of this list. It is not that
high volume that you should hesitate to send a mail about a specific
topic.
Kind regards and thanks for your effort
Andreas.
[1] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio#pkgvcs-debs
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