Re: When presenting Debian Med - worthwhile to point to the need to update packages as contributions?

[Matus Kalas <Matus.Kalas@uib.no>]

Great points Steffen!

In addition to the video tutorial(s), it might perhaps be interesting to 
take a look at Bionitio (https://github.com/bionitio-team/bionitio) and 
try to squeeze in Debian packaging into their templates.

Long live Debian Med!
Matus

On 2020-09-30 19:49, Nilesh Patra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2020, 23:10 Steffen Möller, <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Anyone funding anything wants to fund something new - but
> > maintenance
> > work typically has problems to excite people. On the other hand, it
> > is a
> > very good way to learn about Debian packaging for beginners.
> >
> > How about making some noise about our need to update packages on a
> > regular basis? The packages in Debian Med and its dependencies are
> > steadily increasing and so is the time the updates are demanding. My
> > very own entry to Debian Med was me moaning about clustalw not being
> > updated :) When Andreas gave a presentation at a "nearby virtual"
> > Linux
> > meeting, I saw a few individuals on the chat shying away from
> > presumed
> > technical difficulties.
> >
> > What do you think? An idea that just popped up while writing is that
> > we
> > should possibly do a YouTube/peer.tube video about how a Debian
> > package
> > is updated and then dub that in three languages plus subtitles.
>
> There was this discussion about Debian academy being discussed on
> "-devel"[1]
> [2]
>
> Maybe you could coordinate and find the right set of individuals that
> way?
>
> [1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/08/msg00236.html
> [2]: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAcademy
>
> Kind Regards
> Nilesh