On 11/21/2013 02:00 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Raghava, > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 04:40:52PM +0530, G P S Raghava wrote: >> Dear Andreas >> >> Thanks for your email and detail response to my quiries. We have >> created debian package for our number of software, though they are not >> perfect but works. > It is great to start with a set of packages which are somehow working > and finalise them by polishing. > >> Mean time I have a request from members of this >> community, please have a look on our repository and suggestions. I mean, >> what is required to make them official package of Debian. > Surely I have looked into your repository - that's actually the reason > why I considered contacting you in the first place. The requirements > are: > > 1. (DFSG) free software > 2. somebody who does the maintenance > > Since you are just building Debian packages you can most probably commit > the packaging code into the Debian Med VCS (as described in our team > policy[1]) and we will "sponsor" the packages to the official mirror. > This is probably a successive process because we will have problems to > do this for all packages in one rush. If packages are numerous, we can split the "sponsoring" work among a few of us (DebianMed team).
Olivier > >> Mean time, we >> are reading about conditions required to make a package debian package. > You are best advised to read our team policy - specifically the hints for > newcomers[2]. > >> We will try to attend the conference you suggested, all depend on >> finance. > I can not promise to much but team sprints are supported by Debian to > some extent. Usually this means covering the costs of official Debian > developers but we do not have a final calculation. In any case if this > might help for your decision I'd volunteer to hand over my share > (~250Eur) to somebody of your team if this might fill a needed gap. > >> Developers from my group also joining mailing list. Do we have any >> person on this mailing list who has expertise in packaging, belong to >> our region (India). > Joining the mailing list makes perfectly sense. There are several > experienced packagers lurking on this list. I have no idea what you > mean by "belong to $any region". We have an i18n team in Debian if > there are any country specific things but from a first view on your list > I do not see any specifics for India. But apropos India: We have > written a paper[3] which was originally intended to be published in an > Indian journal (see the discussion here [4]) but I have not heard from > the person who asked me to write this article and I think it is a nice > reading anyway. So we should look for a proper place to publish the > text once it is written at some more reasonable / prominent place than > here[3] - but for the moment it might help you understanding what we > finally are approaching and in how far this is in line with your goals. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > [1] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html > [2] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html#packagingguidelines > [3] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/debian-med-healthcafe.pdf > [4] https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2013/02/msg00129.html > >> From: Andreas Tille <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Chances for cooperation between OSDDLinux and Debian >> Date: 21 November 2013 3:12:04 AM GMT+05:30 >> To: G P S Raghava <[email protected]> >> Hi Raghava, >> >> please feel free to quote me fully on Debian Med mailing list - I'd >> prefer open discussion since other team members are definitely >> interested. >> >> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:38:21AM +0530, G P S Raghava wrote: >>> Dear Andreas >>> Sorry for late response. One of the reason, I have not written to you >>> earlier is that OSDDlinux is not fully finished. >> Well, is there any software that is finished at all? ;-) >> >> IMHO this is no reason at all. The point is that we really want to help >> you reaching your goals - thus getting stronger contact right now would >> be better than doing this later. >> >>> We are are expert in biological science but we have limited knowledge >>> in the filed of system software. >> So that would be a perfect match with Debian Med team. While there are >> also a couple of biologists we also have people wo are more into system >> questions. This mix has been quite successful as I wanted to point out >> in my initial mail. >> >>> Our group http://www.imtech.res.in/raghava/ have developed large >>> number of web-based service (more than 150) related to >>> bioinformtics/chemoinformatics/vaccineinformatics. Thus for us major >>> challenge is to make our web-services available to public in form of >>> standalone software and integration with workflow GALAXY. We achieved it >>> successfully, we develop standalone software and Galaxy-compaitable >>> software, thus our first phase is nearly complete. Now , we are learning >>> to develop debian-packages, soon all software packages our own and third >>> party will be available in form of debian-package. >> Since I realised this from your web page I approached you because it is >> our goal to support this. >> >>> We are strong supporter of open source, we have developed open >>> software related to drug and vaccine informatics. I fully agree with you >>> that we should work in cooperation mode so we complement each other >>> work. We are interested, please give suggestions how can we proceed >>> further . >> As I said it would most probably very effective if one (or more) people >> of your team might join our meeting in January next year: >> >> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/Meeting/Aberdeen2014 >> >> I'm also offering so called Mentoring of the Month >> >> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM >> >> for personal training of newbies. From our point of view the best way >> to help you would be to integrate your packages of interest straight >> into official Debian to put them under effective quality assurance >> control (there are several means inside Debian which saves you a lot >> of work). So if at least one better two or three developers of your >> team might commit to our packaging Vcs and work together with packaging >> and testing this could be a very fruitful cooperation. >> >> Kind regards >> >> Andreas. >> >> On 19-Nov-2013, at 9:30 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: >> >>> Hi Raghava, >>> >>> this is just a ping since we are waiting for a more detailed answer. As >>> I said we would be very happy to use the chance for a face to face >>> meeting. >>> >>> Kind regards >>> >>> Andreas. >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:20:08PM +0530, G P S Raghava wrote: >>>> Dear Andreas >>>> Thanks for your email and offer for cooperation. We are very much >>>> interested to work with debian-med and biolinux, as all three debian-med , >>>> biolinux and OSDDlinux have common object to provide service to the >>>> scientific community. I will write detail email to you soon. >>>> >>>> With best wishes & regards >>>> >>>> Raghava >>>> #=========================================================# >>>> # Dr G P S Raghava FASc, FNASc, Scientist & Head Bioinformatics Centre # >>>> # CSIR- Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector-39A, Chandigarh, India >>>> # >>>> # Phone: +91-172-2690557, 0172-6665450 ; Fax: +91-172-2690632 # >>>> # Eadd: http://www.imtech.res.in/raghava/ Email: [email protected] >>>> # >>>> #=========================================================# >>>> >>>> Google Scholar: >>>> http://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=XK5GUiYAAAAJ&hl=en >>>> >>>> On 15-Oct-2013, at 2:36 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I'm contacting you on behalf of the Debian Med team which has the goal >>>>> to package any Free Software that is relevant for medical care straight >>>>> into Debian.[1] >>>>> >>>>> Your OSDDlinux looks like an exciting implementation of our idea to >>>>> bring Debian to the end user. Our goal is to prepare as much as >>>>> possible straight into Debian to make your work as easy as possible - in >>>>> an optimal situation you should be able to autogenerate your >>>>> distribution straight from the Debian package pool so your content is >>>>> actually Debian and you just need to care for some user oriented >>>>> customisation, support and contact to your users. I hope you might like >>>>> this idea - at least the BioLinux distriution[2] which in principle has >>>>> the very same goal like you just for a different target user group is >>>>> happy about the cooperation we established since more than three years. >>>>> >>>>> If you look at our so called web sentinel for instance on the biology >>>>> section[3] you will find a lot of matches to your NGS page[4] (and on >>>>> other pages - just to mention an example). Our goal would be to work >>>>> on the missings between your page and our software pool to enable you >>>>> to profit directly from the work done inside Debian. >>>>> >>>>> The cooperation with BioLinux developers was established in a way that >>>>> we are working inside the very same version control system(s - we are >>>>> using Git or SVN at the developers preference). So changes made in >>>>> BioLinux will immediately forewardet into the Debian package and if a >>>>> Debian developer changes something this directly leads to an enhancement >>>>> inside BioLinux. We regard this as a win-win-situation to save time and >>>>> man power on both sides. >>>>> >>>>> If you like to learn more about this you are kindly invited to sign into >>>>> the Debian Med mailing list[5] and ask any relevant question there or >>>>> even simply raise our awareness to some of your high priority package of >>>>> yours to ask us for inclusion into Debian. >>>>> >>>>> Moreover there is an excellent chance to meet Debian Med and BioLinux >>>>> developers in person because we will have our yearly Sprint meeting in >>>>> end of January next year in Aberdeen.[6] This meetings have some >>>>> tradition[7] in our small community and leaded to the effect that our >>>>> community was developing way better than before. If you look at the >>>>> Debian team analysis graphs that are collected here[8] you see a general >>>>> pattern of higher activity since 2011 - which was the time when we had >>>>> our first meeting. We would like to invite you to become part of this >>>>> development so if at least one of your developers would like to join >>>>> this could really be in the interest of both parties. >>>>> >>>>> Kind regards and thanks for your contribution to Free Software >>>>> >>>>> Andreas. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> [1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med >>>>> [2] http://nebc.nerc.ac.uk/tools/bio-linux/ >>>>> [3] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio >>>>> [4] http://osddlinux.osdd.net/ngs.php >>>>> [5] http://lists.debian.org/debian-med >>>>> [6] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/Meeting/Aberdeen2014 >>>>> [7] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/Meeting >>>>> [8] http://debian-med.debian.net/ >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> http://fam-tille.de >>>> >>>> -- >>>> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] >>>> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? 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