Hi Andreas, On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote:
> [Quoting you in public because nothing was private in your mail] > The more Brains and Eyes the better ! :-) Hi Luis, > > On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 05:49:41PM -0400, Luis Ibanez wrote: > > Hi Andreas, > > > > I'm starting the Debian packaging for VistA here: > > > > https://github.com/luisibanez/debian-med-vista > > It is very good that you will start with the packaging but *please* > could you choose alioth for doing so? In Debian Med policy it is > explained how we deal with Git repositories and when you do so our > automatic tools can fetch the data you are injecting. This would be > really helpfull! > > Sure, I'll moved it there. I was just starting it quickly and didn't want to break the naming rules in the SVN repository. > > So far, I picked the arbitrary name of "vista-ehr" > > as a package name. > > Sounds reasonable. > > Ok, Although with your good news below, I'm now leaning towards the more natural and expected name : "vista". > > I'm happy to change it for anything that fits the > > Debian rules and avoid the conflict with the > > exising "vista" package from "mia" in the SVN > > repository. > > What "vista" package do you mean - do you mean (the just renamed ;-))) > libmia-vista?. Yes, that is (was) the one. :-) It had a "vista" directory at the "Packages" level of the Debian SVN repository. > It is unreleased and I have the gut feeling that it > never will be released - so I did not hesitated a second to rename it > That's great news ! :-) > (it should have been named libvista anyway and I think the 'mia-' prefix > helps making a clear difference to "the" VistA.) > > Agreed > > BTW: it doesn't look like that "vista" package > > has ever been released..., is there a procedure > > to reclaim a package name ?... maybe.... :-) > > Feel free to take vista ... (if you are not afraid about lawyers from > a totally unrelated product ;-)) > > I'm way more afraid of doctors working in hospitals without EHRs,... :-) So, I'll be taking "vista" as package name. If a name dispute arises, VistA has been around for long enough (~30 years) that it will easy to explain who has the first right to the name. > I'll process in github with a quick-and-dirty approach > > to get something done, at least so that all the pieces > > are there. We can then revisit it and modify it to make > > sure that it follows all the Debian rules. > > > > I'm sketching the process in this Wiki page > > in the github repository: > > > https://github.com/luisibanez/debian-med-vista/wiki/Overview-of-Debian-Packaging-for-VistA > > As I said: I would really love if you would consider git.debian.org as > the main site for the package creation. > Agreed, I'll move to git.debian.org, now that we have cleared the package name to be "vista". > > > In summary, it is similar to setting a system like > > Moodle or like Wikimedia. > > > > I'll appreciate suggestions of other existing packages > > that I could use as examples. > > Unfortunately I have no good advise here - but that's why I moved > discussion to the list. > > Thanks ! I can use Debian help on this configuration. In the meantime, I'll install it in a rather arbitrary directory, which at this point is going to be: /usr/share/vista but will be happy to move it anywhere else, where it will be more consistent with Debian's file system organization. The directory structure so far is: /usr/share/vista /usr/share/vista/r : Source code /usr/share/vista/o : Compiled code /usr/share/vista/g : globals (database) VistA with GT.M compiles the M code into .o files, but needs both types of files to stick around for the system to work properly (actually, it is more a GTM requirement than a VistA requirement). Then, we will have to talk about "users", just as with a MySQL installation, a Postgress installation, or a Moodle installation. Probably a "vista" user and a "vista" group would make sense... ? In particularly a "vista" group, where then all other users who are supposed to need access to the VistA ehr can be made part of the "vista" group. Thanks Luis
