Re: debian and robotics
On Mon, 12 May 2008, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote:
Once I see that the tasks files are growing I will be
happy to add the remaining formalism to finalise the work on this. Feel
free to tell me your alioth user name to add you to the CDD group in SVN
which grants you write permissions.
lepalom-guest
Added to CDD group.
I don't understand the -guest.
"-guest" is attached to all user names if the user is no official
Debian developer. In case you would pass the Debian New Maintainer
queue you would get an account without guest attached.
The idea that I have in mind is to have to have a collection of packages in
the robotics area, co-maintained under the umbrella of a group. I don't know
if it could be some kind of : apt-get install debian-robotics
Well, the idea of Custom Debian Distributions is to support specialized
user environments. One part of doing so is to create so called
meta packages (see CDD paper [1]) which simplify the installation of
a set of packages that are useful to solve a certain task in this
field of specialisation. So even if the Project is called Debian Robotics
the meta packages are typically called
robotics-<task1>
robotics-<task2>
...
But the Debian GIS people currently also do have stuff for only one
single meta package gis-workstation - which is perfectly valid.
Also, looking the repository, I think that robotics should go under
debian-science and not at the same level IMHO.
Well, exactly this is my advise for "not fully grown CDDs in preparation"
as you might call this. Stay under the umbrella of a larger Debian
Science CDD is a good idea if you are lacking man power or if there are
just to view packages available to make a big fuzz about it. On the
other hand we currently you mentioned three tasks for the robotics
field (collision-detection, common, typesetting) and the current technique
is not able to handle several levels - and I do not see any need for
this. According to your suggestion robotics-typesetting is rather a copy
of science-typesetting. If robotics stays under science the issue is
void and science-typesetting can be used. Moreover robotics-common might
actually become science-robotics and robotics-collision-detection
contains only one single package that might be perfectly integrated into
common for the moment.
I just turned this into code in the debian-robotics dir of the CDD
repository. My advise would be to fill the gaps in the remaining
tasks files (all the missing Homepage, License, Pkg-Description fields).
Due to quality issues we can not move the robotics task to debian-science
dir, because the web pages for robotics would be rendered quite ugly and
I would hate half-brewn stuff in this field. Just tell me once you are
finished and we move the robotics task to debian-science and drop
debian-robotics until more people might join your team.
Otherwise, I have a lot of things to do....
Sure. Don't underestimate the work. Just start with the small piece
you can do for the moment and see how it evolves.
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] http://people.debian.org/~tille/cdd/
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