RE: Working on BioImage Suite 2.5 beta source tree

[Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>]

On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Xenophon Papademetris wrote:

> 1. With respect to issues of compiling/packaging BioImage Suite I would like
> to move the discussion to the BioImage Suite Forum itself -- I have set up a
> special board for this purpose, the URL is below
>
> http://research.yale.edu/bioimagesuite/forum/index.php?board=12.0
>
> This will our discussion on this topic at the "right place" to benefit other
> users of BioImage Suite who perhaps are not related to Debian-Med. You will
> need to register on the forum in order to post.

I did so.  Is there any chance to trigger an e-mail to the registered
address once a posting is added to the topic?  I admit I'm quite lazy
to browse several forums and I prefere a notice if something happens
that might be interesting.

> 2. My only other request is for those of you from the Debian-Med group who
> are interested to either post on the forum or send me a short private e-mail
> some information about themselves. Either a URL to a home page or a short
> description of your current work/interests will be fine. This will enable us
> on this side to have a sense of whom we are working with.

See my signature and perhaps this (autogenerated) page which gives an
overview about my Debian packaging activities:

      http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=tille

> We are very interested in interacting with the Debian-Med project, my only
> reservation at this point as expressed in a private exchange with Andreas is
> that much of the test-data for BioImage Suite is (for now) not
> redistributable as it comes with various strings attached (code is easier to
> redistribute than data).

Perhaps we can find some free data for pre-testing (and yes, I admit that
there are data that should not be free).

> A good first step, as Andreas suggested, would be
> to "start working out an unofficial Debian package" that could be downloaded
> from our webpage. With that said, on at least two most common architectures
> (i386, x86_64) we can once such packages are generated, test them here at
> Yale and make sure that they work as well as our other binary releases.
>
> I would prefer (as Andreas mentioned) that administrative issues w.r.t. to
> inclusion of BioImage Suite in Debian should probably be handled in a
> separate e-mail list/or via private e-mail, but my hunch that we are early
> in the process and such discussion maybe premature -- I think accomplishing
> this first step will keep us busy for a while.

Considering that I can only work on this in my spare time and there are
other general Debian-Med issues on my todo list, I do not think that I
could start before Christmas with any considerable work.  If somebody else
would like to give BioImageSuite packages as a Debian-Med Christmas gift
this would be really great. ;-))

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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