Hi Andreas,
Many thanks for moving forward with the package,
and doing the clean up and upload.
I'm sure that Amul remains interested, and he is most likely
swamped in day-to-day work.
We are happy at Kitware to help move the package forward.
In particular, I'll be happy to help test the package, especially with
the classes that I'm teaching at Rensselaer Polytechnic and at
SUNY Albany, where we are introducing MUMPS in the curriculum.
I can start by writing the:
README.debian
This is in fact related to the several M/MUMPS tutorials that we
have been preparing and delivering at RPI and SUNY in the past
two years:
http://www.opensourcesoftwarepractice.org/M-Tutorial/
http://www.opensourcesoftwarepractice.org/OSDB-Tutorial/M/index.html
both of them hosted in Github:
https://github.com/SUNY-Albany-CCI/open-source-databases-tutorial
https://github.com/SUNY-Albany-CCI/M-Tutorial
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Looking at:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dother.en.html#readme
It seems like I should add it to the debian directory in the SVN repository.
I'll start doing that right away.
It will essentially contain this environment configuration:
http://www.opensourcesoftwarepractice.org/OSDB-Tutorial/M/Installation.html#environment
that a user should do, just after installing the package.
It is very exciting to see the package moving forward in the pipeline.
Many Thanks
Luis
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Luis,
>
> since for me no answer (in this case no answer from Amul) means: "Just
> do whatever you want to do" I decided to do something and polished the
> package lintian clean and decided to upload. The package is from my
> point technically at some level that can be thrown at the users for
> testing and considering that ftp new queue currently takes some time we
> might have something to throw at a dedicated user base perhaps in
> November. This at least fits my planed timing even if I'm not happy
> documentation wise.s
>
> The package is IMHO a horror for the uneducated user (without any first
> entry documentation like a README.Debian and things like this) and there
> is even no "command you can start straight from /usr/bin". This is kind
> of very untypical but proably fis-gtm is an untypical package in itself.
> We *really* need to trust on the thorough checking of the package from
> people from kitware (or other fis-gtm developers) once it arrives in
> unstable just to make sure that it really does what it is expected to
> do. Currently the upload was the only option I have seen to push things
> reasonably forward.
>
> I hope this is in you interest.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:53:05AM -0400, Luis Ibanez wrote:
> > Hi Amul,
> >
> >
> > Just to second Andreas,
> >
> >
> > Please note that we at Kitware will be happy
> > to help move the package forward.
> >
> > For example, if a Hackathon can help,
> > we will be glad to put one together.
> >
> >
> > Best,
> >
> >
> > Luis
>
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