I subscribed to debian-science in order to lurk to learn about the state of free software for various scientific endeavors. Now it appears to be a window on the internal politics of Debian.
>From poking around the web looking for answers to questions that I had, I picked up the idea that 'alioth' was the name of a server within the debian collection of servers. Now it appears to be an organization - with human members, and human goal, and ambitions. I hesitate to do a Google search for fear that the hits that I get will be seriously misleading because of human special pleading. Where is there an official Debian statement of what Alioth is? Or is it, like the 19th century Free Masons, a secret organization? With a secret handshake? And other dark things? ;-) On 2009-01-26_1850.12, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Forwarding to debian-science for general discussion > > Am Montag, den 26.01.2009, 16:58 +0100 schrieb Sylvestre Ledru: > > > Eventually pkg-scicomp will merge with debian-science in a near future > > > and become a sub-project Hopefully > > > we will discuss that soon > > Glad you are still considering it. ;) > > > > In order to simplify the packaging in the team, we wrote a policy for > > Debian Science: > > This is *not* the policy of Debian Science! Debian Science does not have > any packaging policy and will hopefully never have one. Being part of > Debian Science just requires to care about scientific packages or > related goals. It will (and must) *never* require to follow any > packaging policy except the Debian policy and it also must not require > to join Alioth! > > ... -- Paul E Condon [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
