Hi all, On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:33:46 Markus Dittrich wrote: > Hi Sébastien, > > Thanks for the nice summary of the current state > of affairs. > > > We also need to know whether we still want a leader. Some time ago > > the question was raised, but got no definite answer. > > I think if we decide that we want a leader we should clearly > define what we expect her/him to do. We're a very diverse > bunch and the packages in science.g.o span a wide range of > fields so I am not 100% convinced that a lead will necessarily > be very effective. On the other hand, there are a few things > that definitely need improvement, documentation and eclasses > being some candidates here, and it might be nice to have somebody > who feels responsible and coordinates/delegates a bit. I'd > probably need a nudge once in a while ;) >
Actually Gentoo hierarchy is quite pragmatic and flexible, we can have several leads - but I guess the implication would be to effectively split into sub-project which is fine if we wanted too. > > * Documentation: > > We need to revamp our project documentation. I started some doc in > > our overlay [1] long time ago, but feel free to update, propose > > patches or rewrite it entirely if you don't like it. Denis had some > > electronics docs in his site, so we could also merge it. A wiki would > > be very nice, but first it would be worth checking how many people are > > actually using Gentoo for science. > I am not sure how people are using Gentoo here now. There is me and a PhD student for sure but the other big user in the NMR lab has left for Oxford. I am not sure if they have kept their machine on Gentoo. They certainly should know that I can be pinged for problems - actually I get pinged for problems with any distro. Francois
