Le lundi 19 octobre 2009 à 14:24 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre a écrit : > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylves...@debian.org> wrote: > > Le vendredi 09 octobre 2009 à 14:01 +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > >> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 01:47:03PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > >> We have a historical split between > >> > >> Debian Scientific Computing Team > >> <pkg-scicomp-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> > >> > >> (in CC - please speak up somebody if I'm wrong with my statement below) > >> and > >> > >> Debian Science Team > >> <debian-science-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> > >> > >> which is IMHO a very bad and confusing (see above) thing. My personal > >> opinion about this is that pkg-scicomp is not as active as it was before > >> and I would really love if we would be able to consolidate things > >> according to the Debian Science Policy[1]. > > To be more precise, the pkg-scicomp started way before the debian-science > > packaging team. We started Debian Science > > because many scientific packages don't belong to pkg-scicomp. > > > > About the future, I have been in touch with Christophe (leader of > > pkg-scicomp) and Manuel about merging both projects. I don't want to > > talk for them but they both agree on this on the principle. > > > > The reasons are various: > > * many people are involved in both projects > > * debian-science has a scope which integrates pkg-scicomp > > * it is not obvious for new people which project contact to > > submit a > > package > > * it would avoid some duplicate work on administrative tasks > > At the same time would it be possible to move the vtk package under > the debian-science umbrella too ? > It has been *extremely* hard over the last week to communicate in > between Denis Barbier, Dominique Belhachemi, A. Maitland Bottoms, > Steve M. Robbins. VTK is really a central package and a mailing list > would really help here. If the current maintainers agree and people in the team are going to help, yes, it would make sense...
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