Hi all, I would like to call for help for the sci team. Lately, we are taking care of sometimes old packages, sometimes packages that we don't use but are quite popular so we want to keep in the tree. Our time is limited, bug list is barely reducing, and requests for new packages are piling up.
There are plenty of interesting projects the sci team could start. But we just don't do because we are understaffed. Examples of such projects are: grid-aware tools, homepage page renewal, more docs, test-suites for packages, more collaboration with hp-cluster. I also know some widely used packages are not in the tree because they need a lot of time to package/maintain. In my field such examples are: iraf and midas in sci-astronomy, geant-4 in hep, R-packages, many numerical libraries, etc... So what could we do to get more help: call for new recruits, convince more devs to join the sci herd, get proxied packages, more overlay maintainers? (in the past, there was a similar thread [1]). I could train a new dev in anyone interested, I would have more time in 2 weeks. Regards, -- Sébastien [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.science/272
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