Re: Additional task: science-neuroscience
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 09:15:43AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Michael Hanke wrote:
>
>> I think that it would be useful to have such a package, as the
>> interesting candidate packages are a bit scattered around. Neuroscience
>> research includes conducting psycho(logical,physical) experiments
>> (pyepl), brain-imaging related work (med-imaging, although not
>> necessarily targeting medical topics), including analysis and
>> visualization (science-imageanalysis, -numericalcomputation), but also
>> the statistical analysis of behavioral data (science-statistics). As
>> large parts of the neurosciences are closely-related to psychology it
>> could also absorb packages not even listed in any task right now (e.g.
>> praat).
>> ...
>> I'd volunteer to take care of such a meta-package, if that is necessary
>> at all, or helps to establish such.
>
> I'm in favour of this idea. As I explained here several times in the past
> I see Debian Science as a pool of potentialy separate Blends dealing with
> and specific science which might sit here until there is enough interest
> and man power to form a stand-alone team. In some fields this might happen
> in others this might never happen and they might sit under the Debian
> Science umbrella for ever - that's fine and that's definitely better than
> if there would be no support of the scientists in this field at all.
>
> So finally the idea is to provide a structured access to people working
> in a specific field and your users in the field of neuroscience will be
> very happy if you assemble a set of packages that will be useful for
> their day to day work. Is there anything against making users happy?
>
> There might be an arguing that there are other specific applied sciences
> which might "deserve" their own task which ends up in a metapackage.
> Well, yes, there definitely are - but the question is always: Who is
> willing to do the work to assemble a reasonable list of packages (if
> there are such packages inside Debian at all). IMHO this is the cruxial
> point here. So if you are willing to do this - just go for it.
> (To enable you injecting the tasks file I just added you to the
> Debian Pure Blends project on alioth.)
Thanks a lot!
I'll dig myself through the docs to see how it works.
Cheers,
Michael
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