I am writing on the behalf of the DOG (Debian Octave Group). * Christophe Prud'homme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-10-02 10:27]:
> I was wondering if there are some presentation of Debian Science and the > Octave team available, and in particular information like the following > - objectives, * Package all Octave-related software available out there, besides Octave itself. * Develop tools for integrating the packages together both at installation time (end-user side) as at built time (developer side). Four further information, see our web page [1] > - policies, The DOG has a Guidelines document [2], although it is slightly outdated and does not include the information related to the recentely added octave-forge packages and the octave-pkg-dev helper package. > - how it functions, The DOG is an Alioth project. The main interactions among developers happen in the pkg-octave-devel mailing list [3]. We have a common SVN repository for all packages [4]. > - common issues faced during software packaging( licensing, technical > issues, build system, upstream...), eg. Salomé issues We have very little licensing problems, since most of our packages are under the GPL. Usually, our packages need very few patches. The upstream authors are quite involved with us. The members of the DOG participate quite actively in the upstream mailing lists. > - some numbers: > o approximate number of working on the project, What is a "number of working"? Do you mean "number of people"? If yes, see below. > o approximate number of people in mailings lists, pkg-octave-devel has currently 18 subscribers. > o origin of the people: continents represented, number of countries > represented The three currently active developers come from Europe (Iceland, German, and France). There are other 13 dormant developers listed as members of the DOG at Alioth, but I cannot tell you accurately where they come from. > o number of packages maintained Currently 59 (most of them are Octave-forge [5] packages). [1] http://pkg-octave.alioth.debian.org/ [2] http://pkg-octave.alioth.debian.org/DOG-Guidelines.html [3] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-octave-devel [4] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-octave/ [5] http://octave.sf.net -- Rafael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
