On Tue, 2019-03-12 at 12:01 +0100, Luca Bezzi wrote: > Dear Paul, > I am Luca, one of the developers of ArcheOS. Thanks for your reply. Would you mind if I forwarded your message to the debian-derivatives and archeos-dev mailing lists so that there is a public record of your reply? Alternatively you could reword your mail and reply again, CCing the two lists and Stefano Costa as I did in my initial mail. > Regarding its status, I have to say that we have problems in further > develop our project due to the fact we did not have a great feedback > from the community of ArcheOS. The problem was/is that most of > the archaeologists that approached ArcheOS became users, but not > developers. That is unfortunate, I know how hard it can be to create a community where people naturally transition from users to contributors. > Do you think it would be possible to transform ArcheOS into an official > Debian project or subproject, in order to have an help in > source-packaging (or also just in packaging)? > Is Debian Pure Blend something similar? > We are open to any solutions I think it would definitely be possible to transform ArcheOS into an official Debian subproject. We have a Debian mentors list where there are people who review and sponsor packages for inclusion in Debian and answer packaging questions for people who get stuck in that process. https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers I don't know how much packaging help you would get from existing Debian contributors but forming a Debian Pure Blend for archaeologists would provide a point of focus for improving Debian for archaeologists and thus attract folks interested in both topics, possibly expanding the set of people working on them beyond Arc-Team. A Debian Pure Blend is subset of Debian worked on by a team that works on improving the use of Debian by a specific community of people (such as archaeologists) by using Debian for that purpose, promoting use of Debian in their community, reporting the results of that use to their community and to Debian at (mini-)DebConfs, helping community members work on and join Debian, fixing issues with Debian the community discovers, adding software to Debian that the community needs, curating a set of collections of software (using metapackages), subsetting Debian in live images and so on. Some more info is available here: https://www.debian.org/blends/ https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends https://blends.debian.org/blends/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-blends/ I've included below some ways the Debian community overlaps with ArcheOS and might have advice or synergies. > Thank to the help of Fabrizio Furnari we were able to move the project > to Debian and start source packaging (also thanks the great help of the > French archaeologist Romain Janvier), but maybe the step has been to big > for us, because of the amount of hours to dedicate to packaging. Packaging is often time consuming but improving upstream projects to avoid workarounds can reduce that burden. > the software selections takes us a lot of time because we have to use > the software in professional projects Are there other parts of the archaeologist community that are using Free Software / Open Source? > e.g. GIS Debian has a team that produces a GIS blend and packages GIS software: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianGis https://www.debian.org/blends/gis/ https://blends.debian.org/gis/ > (currently we re using ROS with several SLAM nodes) I note that the Debian science team have packaged several parts of ROS. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/Robotics/ROS PS: it might also be interesting to write an article for LWN about the use of Free Software & Open Source by archaeologists. https://lwn.net/op/AuthorGuide.lwn -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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