Re: Announcement: New bugs pages, status of renaming
"Jordan Mantha" <laserjock@ubuntu.com> writes:
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Egon Willighagen wrote:
> >> I'm also part of DebiChem, though unfortunately rather dorment in the
> >> last two years... I'll check the discussion asap again, and comment on
> >> it to the debichem ML.
> >
> > Ahh, that's good to know. For my perception only Michael and Daniel
> > formed the team. Perhaps you are volunteering to maintain the tasks
> > pages for the moment. Its a simple editing of debian/control - like
> > files. Just ask me if I should add you to CDD Alioth group ...
>
> There is also Nicholas Breen and myself who do some work in Debichem.
> I'm also a sometimes contributor to Debian Science. I'm sorry if my
> lack of emails indicated that I didn't care about your task pages. I
> just didn't have any complaints :-)
>
AIUI, the goal of Debian Science is to improve support for science in
Debian. People differ in their priorities, but some things that I
think are important are:
Packaging a wide range of useful software with high quality
- Making sure these packages don't become out of date
- Fixing bugs
Advertising/Documenting what software is available and what problems
it solves - and perhaps how to use several packages
together. Personally I think we should also steer people away from
obsolete software.
Producing a LiveDVD of science packages
> For my part, I'm still trying to figure out what exactly all this
> CDD/Blends/Tasks infrastructure stuff is all about.
The tasks infrastructure is a way of easily installing packages
appropriate to a particular area of science. It also serves to
advertise that debian provides those packages.
The bugs pages will make it easier to spot if a maintainer has gone
MIA/is in need of help by highlighting bugs in a particular area. It
also makes it easier for Non DDs and those with limited time to find
bugs that they can help with.
> I love the
> generated pages but I'm not sure what *I* can do to help.
Ah yes, that reminds me - I've added some text to the "Contributing to
Debian Science" on the wiki <http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience>
with suggestions about how DDs and non debian developers can help. I'm
not sure I link sufficiently well to the "Efforts that could be
undertaken".
Comments please - either here, or by editing the wiki. Am I repeating
something that is described elsewhere? What have I missed?
> What exactly
> does it mean to maintain these task pages?
Adding new packages to appropriate tasks. Removing obsolete packages.
Chris
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