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

[Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>]

On 30.09.20 22:26, Matus Kalas wrote:
> 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

Thank you, Matúš,

I was not aware of bionitio, I must admit. Are you close to them? If so,
could they possibly help filling the excel sheet on
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tApLhVqxRZ2VOuMH_aPUgFENQJfbLlB_PFH_Ah_q7hM/edit?usp=sharing
with packages they need?

Best,

Steffen


>
> 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
>