Bug#962268: ITP: pymatgen -- Python Materials Genomics for materials analysis

2020-06-05 Thread Drew Parsons
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Drew Parsons 

* Package name: pymatgen
  Version : 2020.4.29
  Upstream Author : Shyue Ping Ong 
* URL : https://pymatgen.org/
* License : MIT
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description : Python Materials Genomics for materials analysis

Pymatgen (Python Materials Genomics) is a robust, open-source Python
library for materials analysis. These are some of the main features:

1.Highly flexible classes for the representation of Element, Site,
Molecule, Structure objects.

2.Extensive input/output support, including support for VASP
(http://cms.mpi.univie.ac.at/vasp/), ABINIT (http://www.abinit.org/),
CIF, Gaussian, XYZ, and many other file formats.

3.Powerful analysis tools, including generation of phase diagrams,
Pourbaix diagrams, diffusion analyses, reactions, etc.

4.Electronic structure analyses, such as density of states and band
structure.

5.Integration with the Materials Project REST API, Crystallography
Open Database.


To be maintained under the banner of the debichem team.



Re: Becoming a package maintainer and best practices for porting RPMs from Fedora

2020-06-05 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer

Thank you for offering to contribute.

Qianqian Fang wrote:


1. is there an established procedure to convert an official Fedora RPM to a deb 
package?


Not that I'm aware of.  (The package 'alien' can install RPM binary 
packages on Debian, but does not convert source packages.)



any best practices guide for creating a package?
any links/steps on how to become a maintainer would be fantastic. Any one 
willing to mentor me would be great!


(Non-trust warning: wiki.debian.org is an anyone-can-edit site)

General (possibly out of date):
https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/Intro
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/
https://www.debian.org/devel/

Relevant teams:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianOctaveGroup
https://neuro.debian.net/ (possibly inactive)