Re: which package has the debian-astro banner ?
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On 14/02/2019, Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Sirish,
>
Hi Ole,
It's shirish :)
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> I am happy about any PR as I am not very good with this myself ;-)
cool.
>> I do however have few observations and questions about certain
>> packages, metapackages which are in debian-astro. Maybe you or some of
>> the team-members may share/shed some light onto the questions and
>> observations.
>>
>> One of the first things I observed seems to be that debian-astro seems
>> to have been more of a recent vintage than perhaps some of the other
>> blends [2] with stretch [3] being the first release. Because it
>> doesn't mention old-stable i.e. jessie I am guessing that is correct ?
>
> Yes, we started with the mailing list only in 2014, and had the first
> release in Stretch. There are a few astro packages already in Jessie,
> but that was still under the common "Debian Science" umbrella.
>
That's the information I was looking for, thank you :)
>> The other thing I observed is that debian-astro-team has almost 25 odd
>> people in the team [4] which seems to be a pretty healthy number.
>
> It is mixed. I still do most of the work (~ 2/3 of the packages), but
> there are now a few other active people. However, the large number
> mainly comes because I always try to invite people to package, and they
> subscribe, but finally don't start working. But I still have hope...
>
sure :)
>> I was looking at astro-telescopecontrol [5] where many packages talk
>> about different webcams. I was wondering if there is a wiki page which
>> lists out the various webcams and how cheap or expensive these webcams
>> are ? It could be something which could be pointed out to people if
>> such a resource exists.
>
> If you want to create such a page, that would be great -- that field
> needs some more love for sure. I personally concentrate more on the
> "professional" side and try to catch the scientifically important software.
>
Creating such a page is not the problem for me, it needs somebody who
knows about webcams and can step up to volunteer to fill in/populate
the same. I do not know which webcams are good, which are pricey,
which work with Debian and so on and so forth.
It was while I was looking at some of the packages under the
debian-astro banner that I realized that many of them use webcams and
I remembered the story from 2013 when taxi drivers from the Russian
Federation were able to observe the path of a 10-ton meteor.
https://mashable.com/2013/02/15/why-russians-have-dash-cams-caught-meteor/
There was also a documentary I saw on it sometime later hence remembered.
> Best regards
>
> Ole
>
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