Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > The Debian GIS subproject is working to package and integrated the > free GIS tools to make them easily available and ready for > professional use. To make the tools easier to find, I believe it > would be useful if there were a GIS workstation task in tasksel. Here > is a suggestion for such task. It is based on the list of packages > available in the Debian GIS wiki, > <URL:http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl>, and a sanity > check on the Debian GIS mailing list. My criteria for adding a new task to tasksel are: Care should be taken when adding new tasks to ensure that the new task is suitably generic -- it should be something of value to a large number (at least 25%) of our users; and 90% of our users should be able to understand what the task is from only its short description. It must not perform the same general purpose as some other existing task. It must contain packages that are the ones in most common use, and software that is of the best perceived quality. These criteria are relaxed some if the task has an appropriate test program. No more than 10 tasks should ever be displayed by the program, so if there are more, the least-used tasks must be removed when adding a new one. A GIS task seems to fail the 25% test (and the short description given fails the 90% test). We currently have 9 visible tasks, so only 1 free slot. I'd need to see a strong argument for including this task to get past those requirements. -- see shy jo
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