wiki pages
I have made a number of changes[1] to
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience - hopefully they are an
improvement (and if anyone objects to the changes I have made, please
let me know).
Before I go much further, how do people see the role of the wiki - and
in particular the individual subject pages. At the moment many of
them are out of date and incomplete.
How do people see the role of the wiki pages? Are they a list of
packages people want packaged, and some indication of progress on the
packaging? Are they to give information to researchers in particular
subject areas on what packages are available? Are they a list of
e-mails on what packages people used 3 years ago (this is the case for
some of them)? Should they be replaced by
http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/index.html
Personally, I think that related projects - debian-med etc should be
linked more prominently - but how far does that extend - I don't think
we want to link to teams maintaining one package for example?
What I think would be nice are case studies (or links to case studies)
of how to accomplish a particular task. The "how to produce a poster"
section of http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/ConferenceTools is
rather sparse for example. Another example that would be useful to me
personally is "How to perform finite element modelling using software
in Debian". Comparitive reviews of particular pieces of software would
also be useful.
Chris
[1] I've added DebianScience/Engineering etc to match up with the
metapackages, moved the metapackages area nearer the top and turned it
into a table with links to the sentinel pages and ITP/RFP. I'd like to
add a link to bugs in particular subject areas - see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=489861
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