Re: contribution to Med-debian
Dear Nada,
I take the freedom to answer in public on our mailing list.
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 05:33:54PM +0300, Nada Courses wrote:
> I haven't worked in any open software. I'm a computer science master
> student who is interested in computational biology/bioinformatics and I
> would like to get involved in bioMedical free software.
OK, so you might like to learn how to create Debian packages from
bioinformatics software? I think the most straightforward way is to
take some software you either might be interested in yourself which is
not yet in Debian or pick from our todo list[1] something that might be
interesting for you.
Once you have decided for some software you can do a Mentoring of the
Month[2] session. I'd happily guide you into the "secrets" of
packaging. Finally you want to put the Debian Med team policy under
your pillow. It contains some essential readings about packaging in
general as well as the specifics inside the Debian Med team.
Please let me know if these hints are what you are wanting to know
and whether a MoM project would be interesting for you.
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio#pkgvcs-debs
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM
[3] https://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > Dear Nada,
> >
> > thanks for your interest in Debian Med.
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:35:46PM -0700, Nada Courses wrote:
> > > I would like to contribute to debian-med. I want to get acquainted with
> > the
> > > Med platform.
> > > Can you please assess me how to start?
> >
> > To give you an apropriate entry point it would help if you would
> > introduce yourself a bit. If you are an upstream developer of some free
> > software that is relevant for Debian Med and want to get this software
> > packages we would give different pointers than if you are a user of some
> > software and just want to know how to install some packages. So please
> > be more verbose about your work and skills and we will help you getting
> > acquainted.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Andreas.
> >
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> > http://fam-tille.de
> >
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