Re: Science group on alioth

2008-01-28 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 21:29 +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > Le lundi 28 janvier 2008 à 15:13 -0500, Ross Boylan a écrit : > > On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 06:38 +0100, Christophe Prud'homme wrote: > > > in my opinion the scope is quite broad : it spans the "sciences of > > > computing", > > > So pkg-sci

Re: Science group on alioth

2008-01-28 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
I would approach the question of a team by asking what values we have as Debian science developers. I have already seen Andreas representing consistency and attention to detail, and I would agree that we should display these if we have a new team. I have some other aesthetics too: When I first g

Re: Science group on alioth

2008-01-28 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Le lundi 28 janvier 2008 à 15:13 -0500, Ross Boylan a écrit : > On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 06:38 +0100, Christophe Prud'homme wrote: > > in my opinion the scope is quite broad : it spans the "sciences of > > computing", > > So pkg-scicomp should definitely not host all possible "science" > > packages.

Re: Science group on alioth

2008-01-28 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 06:38 +0100, Christophe Prud'homme wrote: > in my opinion the scope is quite broad : it spans the "sciences of > computing", > So pkg-scicomp should definitely not host all possible "science" > packages. Speaking only as an onlooker, I thought the original idea (for pkg-sci

Re: Science group on alioth

2008-01-28 Thread Jason Riedy
And David Bremner writes: > The question I was trying ask is how broad the pkg-scicomp > groups sees its mandate. "Scientific computing" as a whole is sucking in combinatorial work as quickly as possible. There are mountains of potential uses in general data analysis, biological systems simulatio

Re: Science group on alioth

2008-01-26 Thread Christophe Prud'homme
David, in my opinion the scope is quite broad : it spans the "sciences of computing", So pkg-scicomp should definitely not host all possible "science" packages. I stepped up for opencascade/salomé/code aster because I think they fit in (netgen and gmsh which are part of pkg-scicomp have connection

Re: Science group on alioth

2008-01-26 Thread David Bremner
[ I originally sent this by mistake to Christophe only, sorry about the extra noise] >> Before we kill pkg-science, are people ok with pkg-scicomp >> including e.g. graph theory? I.e. stuff outside the normal >> "numerical" idea that some people have about scientific >> computing

Re: Science group on alioth

2008-01-26 Thread Christophe Prud'homme
David, > Before we kill pkg-science, are people ok with pkg-scicomp including > e.g. graph theory? I.e. stuff outside the normal "numerical" idea > that some people have about scientific computing? I certainly don't > mind, but when I hear "scientific computing", I think of numerics. I guess yo

Re: Science group on alioth

2008-01-26 Thread David Bremner
> "Raphael" == Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Raphael> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: >> I really don't mind giving up the idea of pkg-science (Raphael >> already created the project and the svn... Sorry for this). Raphael> Once decided, please don't

Re: Science group on alioth

2008-01-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > I really don't mind giving up the idea of pkg-science (Raphael already > created the project and the svn... Sorry for this). Once decided, please don't forget to request the removal of the pkg-science project and the svn repository if you integrate the

Re: Science group on alioth

2008-01-25 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 24 January 2008 at 22:02, Christophe Prud'homme wrote: | The policy is not to include the sources, just the diff. Would that be ok ? | We use svn-buildpackage but that is not mandatory Same for us at pkg-openmpi. I wasn't the one setting this up, but as the default 'sponsor and uploader' I qui

Re: Science group on alioth

2008-01-25 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 09:54 -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 23:23 +0100, Frederic Lehobey wrote: > [snip] > > > > By the way, as I am extremely busy these days I had not time to > > answer to Adam Powell but I wish to congratulate him for his > > impressive work on packagi

Re: Science group on alioth

2008-01-25 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 23:23 +0100, Frederic Lehobey wrote: [snip] > > By the way, as I am extremely busy these days I had not time to > answer to Adam Powell but I wish to congratulate him for his > impressive work on packaging OpenCascade and Salome. I plan to test > the compiling of his packag

Re: Science group on alioth

2008-01-24 Thread Frederic Lehobey
Hi, Sylvestre Ledru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2008-01-24 17:38:13) : > After a few discussions with Raphael and Adam, I would like to propose > to create a pkg-science on alioth in order to create a dynamic around > scientific software packaging. > Adam created a package of Opencascade. To simplify th

Re: Science group on alioth

2008-01-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hello, On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 22:02 +0100, Christophe Prud'homme wrote: > [ Thursday 24 January 2008 ] > | Le jeudi 24 janvier 2008 à 20:31 +0100, Christophe Prud'homme a écrit : > | > [ Thursday 24 January 2008 ] > | > > | > | Hello, > | > | > | > | After a few discussions with Raphael and Adam, I

Re: Science group on alioth

2008-01-24 Thread Christophe Prud'homme
[ Thursday 24 January 2008 ] | Le jeudi 24 janvier 2008 à 20:31 +0100, Christophe Prud'homme a écrit : | > [ Thursday 24 January 2008 ] | > | > | Hello, | > | | > | After a few discussions with Raphael and Adam, I would like to propose | > | to create a pkg-science on alioth in order to create a dy

Re: Science group on alioth

2008-01-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: After a few discussions with Raphael and Adam, I would like to propose to create a pkg-science on alioth in order to create a dynamic around scientific software packaging. Adam created a package of Opencascade. To simplify the maintenance of this packa

Re: Science group on alioth

2008-01-24 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Le jeudi 24 janvier 2008 à 20:31 +0100, Christophe Prud'homme a écrit : > [ Thursday 24 January 2008 ] > | Hello, > | > | After a few discussions with Raphael and Adam, I would like to propose > | to create a pkg-science on alioth in order to create a dynamic around > | scientific software packagin

Re: Science group on alioth

2008-01-24 Thread Christophe Prud'homme
[ Thursday 24 January 2008 ] | Hello, | | After a few discussions with Raphael and Adam, I would like to propose | to create a pkg-science on alioth in order to create a dynamic around | scientific software packaging. | Adam created a package of Opencascade. To simplify the maintenance of | this pa

Re: Science group on alioth

2008-01-24 Thread Romuald Conty
Hello, On Thursday 24 January 2008 17:38:13 Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > After a few discussions with Raphael and Adam, I would like to propose > to create a pkg-science on alioth in order to create a dynamic around > scientific software packaging. > Adam created a package of Opencascade. To simplify

Science group on alioth

2008-01-24 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Hello, After a few discussions with Raphael and Adam, I would like to propose to create a pkg-science on alioth in order to create a dynamic around scientific software packaging. Adam created a package of Opencascade. To simplify the maintenance of this package and to create of future packages lik