Re: Bug#459637: ITP: mustang -- multiple structural alignment of proteins
[Added Debian-Med list in CC]
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:
Thank you for your warm welcome message!
Sure - we welcome everybody who works on our side. :)
Let me introduce myself:
I am a protein crystallographer with a major interest in methods development
and scientific computing. After ~10 years of packaging software for the
Redhat world, I switched to Ubuntu in May 07 and have been working to
repackage all the software we use in the lab for Debian/Ubuntu.
In the process, I have gotten involved with the nice group of MOTUs in
Ubuntu, and I have started contributing packages. I got a few into the
current Ubuntu release (7.10) and I am working on another bunch.
Unfortunately, a lot of the crystallographic software is closed
source/non-distributable, but I set the goal to submit all free software
packages to Debian (and Ubuntu) and maintain them.
The friendly Ubuntu developers encourage people to contribute their packages
to Debian as well, and "mustang" is my first attempt at that.
It's a simple single binary package without many troubles, although I
discussed a bit with the sponsors about including the PDB files in the
distribution, which they said could not be distributed due to license issues
(there is no license needed for scientific data IMHO). So I repackaged the
tarball to exclude them.
I would certainly like to work with you guys, I have joined the
debian-med-packaging list and look forward to getting to know you all there.
Well, probably it might be reasonable to join the Debian-Med discussion
list debian-med@lists.debian.org where we try to organise our effort to
package all free software that might be useful in medical care (which
includes microbiology). Here you might get hints to other software that
could be useful for your work.
Feel free to ask if something remains unclear
I am using git to manage my packaging locally, and (although I have never
tried it) I think it is possible to interact with an svn repo. I'd like some
more info on how to get started using the debian-med svn repo!
The usage of the Debian-Med SVN is explained at
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed
I do not know git and we do not want to force anything on you that does
not fit your habit but using the SVN has some advantages because it is
watches by some web tools. For instance if you look at
http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/
you have an overview about the work of your Debian-Med coworkers and
there is some further usefull stuff on this dynamic (and under high
development - so please expect bugs) pages. To participate in the
Debian-Med SVN you need a login at alioth.debian.org and once you
got a user name I will add it to the Debian-Med project if you would
like to join.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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http://fam-tille.de
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