On November 19, 2016 12:03:06 PM EST, Ole Streicher <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi Yaroslav, Yury and all. > > >On 19.11.2016 17:50, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: >> On Sat, 19 Nov 2016, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: >>>> * pandas >>>> * pymc >>>> * statsmodels >>>> * scikit-learn >> >>> I'd also add at least those two: >> >>> * mpi4py >>> * seaborn >> >>>> Would you consider moving these packages to debian-science instead? >This >>>> would enable team-maintenance for a larger team and may help to >keep >>>> them in a good shape. At least, I don't want to join neurodebian >just to >>>> fix the stuff in-place. >> >>> The question, of course, is if moving the packages will really >magically >>> attract more maintainers... my understanding is that packages are >maintained >>> in NeuroDebian by default to make it easier for NeuroDebian >maintainers & >>> leverage the repository infra they have in place. But maybe >something worth >>> considering anyways. > >I can speak here just for myself: I found the upstream patch that >solved >the main issue in statsmodels, and it is more complicated for all to >upload the patch to the bug, having it back downloaded and applied to >the git. Having this complicated process in mind, at least I delayed >working on this quite quite a bit. A repository where I can contribute >directly is just more inviting. YMMV, however. > >> In general I don't mind at all moving (or better -- having moved ;) ) >> any of those packages under debian-science maintenance! Which one >> would you like to start with? e.g. statsmodels is indeed the >> interesting one. I have just uploaded fresh pandas (which brought >new >> FTBFS :-/) with hope that some might just go away in statsmodels, but >> that didn't happen. I am still slowly working with statsmodels and >> have some non-pushed changes, but if you are keen to start with e.g. >> pandas and fixing up any of those issues as it being a part of Debian >> science -- it would be awesome. Just let me know which package(s) >you >> want to start with so we don't overlap. > >As I wrote, I looked at statmodels; however the solution suggested by >Sandro Tosi (tzdata) didn't work. So I am stuck there now; however >there >is just this one remaining issue. > >Best regards > >Ole > >_______________________________________________ >Neurodebian-devel mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/neurodebian-devel
Fwiw my packaging repository is on github, I would appreciate a PR if you would like to help rapidly with a patch... I am ATM looking into uploading updated maintenance/0.8 iirc upstream branch. Is the fix you are talking about from there? -- Sent from a phone which beats iPhone.
