Hi All! I want to support gentoo-science and especially sage-on-gentoo. I'm also interested to become official gentoo dev. Whats the way to go .. where can is tart?
best regrads, Bjoern Thorwirth Am Mittwoch, den 03.02.2010, 09:38 -0800 schrieb Sébastien Fabbro: > Hello all, > > I wanted to get heads up for our science project. > > * Manpower: > First our under staffed recruitment team found some time to > turn Justin Lecher (jlec) an official Gentoo developer who > hasn't stopped into helping for the science and chemistry packages. > Welcome Justin! > We have a couple of people also in the mentoring process who will be > great new addition to the team. And as always we need more hands. So > anyone interested, contact the sci team. > > We also need to know whether we still want a leader. Some time ago > the question was raised, but got no definite answer. > > * Bugs: > I have not done the counts, but I see we are actually improving quite > a bit and killing a lot of old and nasty bugs. I think we are still > > * 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. > One another simple thing is also add a <longdescription> tag in the > metadata.xml of our packages which I think useful to discover quickly > a new package and give credits for upstream. > > * Projects: > - Do not forget to test the g-octave project from Raphael [2], he > needs feedback. > - Sage on Gentoo [3] is slowly but surely becoming a reality thanks to > Christoper and Francois. > - A reminder for all of you to test the multiple MPI implementation > system [4] put together by Justin Bronder > - I plan to update the blas-lapack and the Fortran frameworks with > long overdue package updates before the Summer. Contact me if you > want to help. > > [1] http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/sci.git;a=tree;f=docs > [2] http://g-octave.rafaelmartins.eng.br/ > [3] http://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo > [4] http://dev.gentoo.org/~jsbronder/empi.xml > > > Best, > > -- > Sebastien > > -- Bjoern Thorwirth, Zentrum für Medizinische Biotechnologie, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstr. 2, 45117 Essen, Germany phone +49 201 183-4026, [email protected]
