Hi Steffen,
thanks a lot for your patch. Unfortunately it came after I filed
the according bug. I was afraid we are a bit late and thus I was
pushing a bit (also to enable translators finalising their work to
be finished with the release.
My suggestion is that I push your text to our proposed release notes for
Debian 13 in our Git repository. Its a good base to derive from and to
be faster next time.
Alternatively please forward your text to
Bug#1036776: release-notes: Release notes paragraph from Debian Med team
What do you think?
Kind regards
Andreas.
Am Thu, May 25, 2023 at 11:57:59PM +0200 schrieb Steffen Möller:
> Heya,
>
> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 25. Mai 2023 um 09:51 Uhr
> > Von: "Andreas Tille" <[email protected]>
> > An: [email protected]
> > Cc: "Steffen Möller" <[email protected]>
> > Betreff: Re: Please review release notes patch
> >
> > Hi Nilesh,
> >
> > Am Wed, May 24, 2023 at 10:16:22PM +0530 schrieb Nilesh Patra:
> > > On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 11:28:13AM +0200, Pierre Gruet wrote:
> > > > Le 24/05/2023 à 08:25, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> > > > >
> > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/communication/-/blob/master/releasenotes/bookworm/release-notes.patch
> > > > >
> > > > > Please review and comment on it (or just push fixes and enhancements)!
> > > > Is there any important piece of software we packaged during this release
> > > > cycle and that could be worth highlighting? From my limited perspective
> > > > I
> > > > have none that comes to mind, but maybe it will for someone else.
> > >
> > > I do remember that during the bullseye release, we were looking forward
> > > to get nextflow into bookworm. AFAICS, that did not happen but I do see
> > > a capsule-nextflow package.
> > > Although it is mostly a deployment tool, _maybe_ it is worth a mention?
> > >
> > > I've CC'ed Steffen for any inputs about the same.
> >
> > Steffen?
>
> Nextflow has not made it. Pierre summarized the state not to long ago.
> The problem was the change to the build tool that Debian does not support its
> latest version.
>
> > IMHO I consider it less worth mentioning than shiny-server.
>
> shiny-server is a piece of infrastructure to run services, obviously.
> It is important, although many would say that it is not a core piece of
> bioinformatics.
> I propose to adjust the release notes accordingly, also adopting a bit of
> what Pierre described wrt dependencies. Here my shot:
>
> <para>
> For the past 20 years, Debian has been a trusted distributor of software for
> the Life Sciences and Medicine, offering all the benefits that come with
> Debian as a distribution. This commitment has supported education, research,
> and service providers who rely on web-based software solutions. Particularly
> in the life sciences field, where data often exceeds transport capacity,
> Debian's contributions are of immense value. With the release of Debian
> Bookworm, we are excited to introduce the shiny-server package, which enables
> the creation of scientific web applications using the statistical environment
> R.
> </para>
> <para>
> Much of our work goes unnoticed by users who simply see their familiar
> packages updated. However, behind the scenes, we continuously strive to
> improve the reliability and quality of our software. Through enhanced
> Continuous Integration support, the packages maintained by the Debian Med
> team undergo official auto-tests and additional tests developed by our team.
> By keeping software dependencies up to date, multiple packages can work
> seamlessly together, benefiting from the collective identification of issues
> and ensuring a smooth user experience. Any patches we create are shared back
> with the original developers, allowing Debian Med to remain closely aligned
> with the original sciences.
> </para>
> <para>
> Bookworm ships with >1000 packages that are maintained by the Debian Med
> group that are kept compatible with the very latest versions of the software
> itself, but most work is invested into maintaining that often aging but
> established software to remain compatible with the latest versions of the
> shared libraries that often experiences incompatible changes to their API.
> This effort has become increasingly difficult over the past years as
> softwares have grown in complexity with many more dependencies, and also
> seeing many overlaps with other disciplines, such that the contributors to
> Debian Med also find themselves contributing to the Science and Electronic
> teams, or just help with basic Java or Python libraries that have not yet
> been packaged. But waiting for Debian to provide packages for all the latest
> softwares available today would slow your Science down. To the rescue may
> come the updated package of Singularity, i.e. a non-privileged means to
> install externally prepared software images, and we already know many such
> images to have Debian as their basis.
> </para>
> <para>
> The Debian Med team values feedback from users, especially regarding requests
> for packaging previously unpackaged free software or backports to earlier
> releases that are important to you.
> </para>
> <para>
> To install the packages maintained by the Debian Med team, simply install the
> metapackages named med-*, which are currently at version 3.8.x for Debian
> Bookworm. You can explore the full range of biological and medical software
> available in Debian by visiting the <ulink
> url="https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks";>Debian Med tasks pages</ulink>.
> </para>
>
> Please extend/shorten/mod as you see fit.
>
> Best,
> Steffen
>
>
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