On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 04:30:35PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Chris Walker wrote: > > >For example http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/physics.php lists > >packages to do Finite element analysis, optical simulation, xray > >absorption spectroscopy, ab inito quantum mechanics and computer algebra. > > > >I propose to post to this list or the wiki a list of potential > >subcategories along with packages that would go in them, and see wheres > >we go from there. > > The current technique to build these pages is not able to create > subcategories > and there is no plan to add this feature for reasons given below. I would > not recommend using a wiki for the categorisation - other CDDs had the > experience that these wikis become unmaintained and outdated very quickly. >
It was the outdatedness of the science wiki pages that prompted me to think something needs doing, and that there was a contribution I could make. The other thing was seeing some discussion about FEA packages going in - but it not being clear whether there was a complete fea system I would be able to use. > >PS I think that http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/physics.php > >is nice, but a denser format would also be useful - more like the > >https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuScience (but again with better > >subcategories). > > I perfectly agree that physical packages deserve a better categorisation. > DebTags is great and should definitely be used - just go for a tagging > of these packages. > I'm not sure there are enough categories - physics is too coarse a granularity - perhaps I should post some examples. > The reason why we do not have a better categorisation is that we started > Debian Science CDD for those sciences that did not yet have enough man power > to maintain an own CDD. I would really love to see a Debian Physics CDD. > Would you volunteer to care for this? I don't think I will have the time unfortunately. In addition, although I'm a physicist, much of what I've done has been crystallography, so packages useful to me would pull in a significant part of chemistry. > > My suggestion would be to start with creating tasks files builded according > to the known sheme and move them to the cdd/projects space. Then we could > build physics specific pages easily and will see whether this idea attracts > enough people to work on a self-contained CDD. Just ask if you need any > help. > I'll list some tasks and packages, and see where we go from there. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]