Hi, Have many thanks for this presentation. I think this is important for us, and I think your presentation could mention why these Covid-19-biohackathons of Debian are beneficial for Covid-19 research:
* for many contributors this may be the first contact with scientific software and for all of us it is a challenge to see larger workflows dissected into so many packages - directed by one's interest and available skills one finds packages to contribute to the distribution and is likely to also send patches upstream, which may be the seed for more. * tests have spawned actions by upstream * the DFSG are often not followed, especially since with github it has become so easy to just create a fork. Our requests have triggered upstreams to create pull requests and merge their efforts. * you may want to give a quick estimate of the fraction of non-bio-centric packages that we have added to the benefit of Debian at large Work continues to complete workflows * it is a tree of dependencies - and we have yet to reach root * need to inform upstream of packages once these are intesting and send patches against their install instructions * need to transition from packaging towards executing these workflows and provide tutorials Best, Steffen On 28.07.20 08:43, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > my talk proposal for DebConf20[1] was accepted recently. I would like > to thank all contributers (who "stayed home and contributed" ;-) ) in > this talk. To make sure I will not miss anybody please be so kind and > send me an e-mail with a list of your contributions - I'm afraid I would > forget something if I try to assemble it all. > > Feel free to add your contribution here to this thread on the mailing > list - I see no reason to hide it in some private mail (which is fine > anyway if you prefer this). > > Thanks again to all those who contributed and who keep on contributing > > Andreas. > > [1] > https://debconf20.debconf.org/talks/21-stay-home-and-contribute-to-debian-med/ >
