Re: [fis-gtm] ready for upload

Hi Andreas,

Many thanks for moving forward with the package,

and doing the clean up and upload.

I'm sure that Amul remains interested, and he is most likely

swamped in day-to-day work.

We are happy at Kitware to help move the package forward.

In particular, I'll be happy to help test the package, especially with

the classes that I'm teaching at Rensselaer Polytechnic and at

SUNY Albany, where we are introducing MUMPS in the curriculum.

I can start by writing the:

README.debian

This is in fact related to the several M/MUMPS tutorials that we

have been preparing and delivering at RPI and SUNY in the past

two years:

http://www.opensourcesoftwarepractice.org/M-Tutorial/

http://www.opensourcesoftwarepractice.org/OSDB-Tutorial/M/index.html

both of them hosted in Github:

https://github.com/SUNY-Albany-CCI/open-source-databases-tutorial
https://github.com/SUNY-Albany-CCI/M-Tutorial

Looking at:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dother.en.html#readme

It seems like I should add it to the debian directory in the SVN repository.

I'll start doing that right away.

It will essentially contain this environment configuration:

http://www.opensourcesoftwarepractice.org/OSDB-Tutorial/M/Installation.html#environment

that a user should do, just after installing the package.

It is very exciting to see the package moving forward in the pipeline.

Many Thanks

Luis

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas@fam-tille.de> wrote:

Hi Luis,

since for me no answer (in this case no answer from Amul) means: "Just
do whatever you want to do" I decided to do something and polished the
package lintian clean and decided to upload. The package is from my
point technically at some level that can be thrown at the users for
testing and considering that ftp new queue currently takes some time we
might have something to throw at a dedicated user base perhaps in
November. This at least fits my planed timing even if I'm not happy
documentation wise.s

The package is IMHO a horror for the uneducated user (without any first
entry documentation like a README.Debian and things like this) and there
is even no "command you can start straight from /usr/bin". This is kind
of very untypical but proably fis-gtm is an untypical package in itself.
We *really* need to trust on the thorough checking of the package from
people from kitware (or other fis-gtm developers) once it arrives in
unstable just to make sure that it really does what it is expected to
do. Currently the upload was the only option I have seen to push things
reasonably forward.

I hope this is in you interest.

Kind regards

Andreas.

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:53:05AM -0400, Luis Ibanez wrote:
> Hi Amul,
>
>
> Just to second Andreas,
>
>
> Please note that we at Kitware will be happy
> to help move the package forward.
>
> For example, if a Hackathon can help,
> we will be glad to put one together.
>
>
> Best,
>
>
> Luis

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