Hi Folks,
below I present to you summary of sci meeting that took place at
#gentoo-science on 29.06.2010 20:00 UTC. Full log is available at:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~xarthisius/gentoo-science_meeting-2010-06-29.log
1) current state of herds:
sci : main libs are in good shape, though we need to find
replacement for devs less active at the moment
things to be looked at: blas/lapack
sci-physics: currently understaffed, main source of bugs: root and geant
people that volunteered to look after the herd:
dilfridge, h0nk
sci-electronics: lost lead, understaffed at the moment
people that volunteered to look after the herd:
TomJBE, dilfridge, rafaelmartins
possible fresh blood: Stefan Salewski
sci-biology: good shape, no big project that are causing troubles
sci-chemistry: good shape, though quite big herd, many active
maintainers
sci-geosciences: gis packages maintained by scarabeus, gdal needs
immediate fixing, understaffed
sci-mathematics: priority to bump Scilab, lots of big and hard to
maintain packages (e.g. octave, singular)
people that volunteered to look after the herd:
tomka (singular), rafaelmartins (octave and friends)
+ grozin already taking care of maxima and friends
Sage-on-Gentoo:
pretty much well covered by separate discussion on g-sci ml.
Issues raised:
- pushing patches from sage upstream, possibly in
collaboration with python team
2) Policies
* Introduce testing for demanding packages via e.g pkg_posttest,
prepare testing procedures for filing STABLEREQ bugs
* peer review of new ebuilds (like in sunrise) on #gentoo-science
* extensive QA before moving to main tree (which I volunteered to do
:) )
* having sci-oriented AT (tomka x86, kiwifb ppc)
3) Web page/doc/wiki
* project page needs updating (!!!all devs/users please at least add
your names/ functions to docs in overlay!!!)
* every pkg should have "longdescription" in metadata.xml
* @g-overlays is currently working on some solution for git overlay
that would give as wiki and some other tools (I suggested redmine to them)
4) Priorities
- recruitment
* java guru - existing or future dev that could help with great
number of java using sci packages
* CAD guru - person that would take care of freecad and its deps
mess (reavertm started to work on it, we should ask if he's interested
in joining sci)
* "general" guru - we always need new devs...
- electing a lead
* as a project we should have a lead and organize elections
5) Any other business
- scarabeus asked us to consider merging sci-* herds into one sci,
since:
* we don't generate that much of bugs
* we are not territorial
* most of us is already in more than one sci-* herd
TODO list:
* send mail to people that have access to sci overlay and are not
yet being recruited, if they're willing to become devs (me)
* update project page (everybody)
* update entries in /var/mail/alias/misc/sci* (everybody)
* send mail regarding election (jlec)
* search for people that could join us on irc (possibly sunrise
contributors) or bugzie (everybody)
* contact arch teams about our dedicated ATs (jlec + people involved)
Hopefully I haven't missed much :)
Cheers,
Kacper
