Eric - Thanks for the support. Andreas provided a great start with all the links and info. I'm still tyring to digest just the first few paragraphs. As questions come up I won't be shy to ask for help.
cheers ian On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 9:34 PM, Eric Maeker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > This discussion is really interesting. All medical application are welcome > in debian med. > I am not a debian guru but If I can help you, I will. Feel free to ask. > > Éric, freemedforms.com > > Le 26 mai 2014 à 16:06, Ian Wallace <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > > > > -- Ian Wallace - CCRMC DFM Staff Physician - (c) 303.681.5732
