Andreas - Have started reading the materials in the various links. Sounds like the Mentor for a Month is the exact thing that we need. Brady doesn't have the bandwidth right now and I should be able (I hope) work out the packaging system.
Let me know when you are back from vacation and how I go about getting connected for a mentor. Thanks a million. cheers ian On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 7:06 AM, Ian Wallace <[email protected]> wrote: > Andreas - Thanks for the very helpful email. I think the mentoring for a > month sounds wonderful. I have been working with Brady Miller discussing > this topic am he suggested I contact since he doesn't have time to take > this on. Currently we have a packaging script in GitHub that works to > create a deb pkg but doesn't appear to conform to any of the deb standards. > > I appreciate the reply while on vacation and will start reading the > information you sent along. I start a new job in June but should be able > to squeeze in getting this accomplished. Let me know how I proceed. Git is > preferred over SVN since the rest of the project uses that exclusively. > > Ian > > Ian Wallace 303-681-5732 > > > On May 25, 2014, at 11:38 PM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Ian, > > > > I'm currently on vaccation but this mail seems important enough to at > > least drop a short notice. > > > >> On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 09:27:16PM -0700, Ian Wallace wrote: > >> Hello! Hope this isn't spamming the list but thought it would be best > just > >> to ask. I am a developer on the OpenEMR php source code and we'd love > to > >> start including the package in the official Debian distros. > > > > Mails like this are definitely no spam but the kind of mail we are > > excited about and one of the reasons we have invented this list: To > > get in contact with people we can work together to get packages of > > high relevance done. > > > >> I have been reading lots of packaging, control files, etc and to be > honest > >> I am a bit lost as to exactly what to do for a non-makefile package. > Since > >> this is essentially a web application (PHP files only) there's no > >> 'building' really just created a directory structure and packaging. > Does > >> it matter which tool we use to do that? Does it have to be a makefile? > >> > >> Thanks in advance. Any advice/pointers/URL's/howto's appreciated. > > > > As I said above I just want to drop a short notice: About two years ago > > at Libre Software Meeting in Geneva I started some preliminary work on > > OpenEMR which was based on the work of Brady Miller <[email protected]>. > > Here you can find some past discussion about this: > > > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2012/07/msg00362.html > > > > (and following thread in mailing list.) > > > > I do not really remember why this past discussion has stalled but the > > according SVN I created for the Debian packaging here > > > > svn://anonscm.debian.org/debian-med/trunk/packages/openemr/trunk/ > > > > has not seen any commits since this time (except one automatic update I > > pushed today). So how could we proceed from here to finally get OpenEMR > > packaged? Since some time I'm running a teaching project called > > Mentoring of the Month > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM > > > > which enabled us to get some quite interesting packages included into > > Debian. Since I'm back from vacation at beginn of Juni we could start > > doing this for OpenEMR together. Meanwhile you could have a look at > > the relevant documentation we created for newcomers in our team which > > is called "Debian Med team policy": > > > > http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html > > > > Here you will find useful hints how to start with the packaging. You > > might also like to decide in advance what version control system you > > might like to use. It has turned out that more and more people prefer > > Git over SVN. I'd volunteer to migrate the stuff I created in SVN to > > Git if you like this more. > > > > Kind regards and thanks for your interest > > > > Andreas. > > > > > > -- > > http://fam-tille.de > -- Ian Wallace - CCRMC DFM Staff Physician - (c) 303.681.5732
