Re: pkg-science, again

2008-03-02 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Rudi Cilibrasi wrote: Well said. I have been suggesting this for years. I believe the scientific method is generally thought to include verifiability and particularly reproducibility as criteria for a well-performed experiment. Let me comment on with 1 reference which

Re: pkg-science, again

2008-02-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, David Bremner wrote: Well, perhaps, but: - This is the naming convention suggested by the alioth guidelines on the wiki[1], however authorative those are. Mind you, this is a bit self referential, since these are the guidelines for packaging projects

Re: pkg-science, again

2008-02-26 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Le mardi 26 février 2008 à 10:03 +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit : On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, David Bremner wrote: Well, perhaps, but: - This is the naming convention suggested by the alioth guidelines on the wiki[1], however authorative those are. Mind you, this is a bit self

Re: pkg-science, again

2008-02-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: I think everybody agree on this. However, we have to start somewhere and starting to add some interesting packages could be a good way to begin and to interest people to this project, don't you think ? Well, we might be much farther away. I guess

Re: pkg-science, again

2008-02-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: This group could take inspiration from pkg-scicomp or debian-med to create his own policy (goals are very similar to pkg-scicomp). I'm a little bit concerned about the nomen est omen _pkg_-science and _pkg_scicomp. IMHO we need more than just

Re: pkg-science, again

2008-02-25 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: This group could take inspiration from pkg-scicomp or debian-med to create his own policy (goals are very similar to pkg-scicomp). I'm a little bit concerned about the

Re: pkg-science, again

2008-02-25 Thread David Bremner
Andreas == Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andreas On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: This group could take inspiration from pkg-scicomp or debian-med to create his own policy (goals are very similar to pkg-scicomp). Andreas I'm a little bit concerned

Re: pkg-science, again

2008-02-24 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:22:04 +0100, David Bremner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sylvestre == Sylvestre Ledru [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sylvestre I would like to jump on this opportunity to remind that Sylvestre we have the alioth projects pkg-science which could be Sylvestre use

pkg-science, again

2008-02-23 Thread David Bremner
Sylvestre == Sylvestre Ledru [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sylvestre I would like to jump on this opportunity to remind that Sylvestre we have the alioth projects pkg-science which could be Sylvestre use for maintenance of non-scientific-computing Sylvestre software if people are