Re: Package categories
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 04:30:35PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Chris Walker wrote:
>
> >For example http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/physics.php lists
> >packages to do Finite element analysis, optical simulation, xray
> >absorption spectroscopy, ab inito quantum mechanics and computer algebra.
> >
> >I propose to post to this list or the wiki a list of potential
> >subcategories along with packages that would go in them, and see wheres
> >we go from there.
>
> The current technique to build these pages is not able to create
> subcategories
> and there is no plan to add this feature for reasons given below. I would
> not recommend using a wiki for the categorisation - other CDDs had the
> experience that these wikis become unmaintained and outdated very quickly.
>
It was the outdatedness of the science wiki pages that prompted me to
think something needs doing, and that there was a contribution I could
make.
The other thing was seeing some discussion about FEA packages going in
- but it not being clear whether there was a complete fea system I
would be able to use.
> >PS I think that http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/physics.php
> >is nice, but a denser format would also be useful - more like the
> >https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuScience (but again with better
> >subcategories).
>
> I perfectly agree that physical packages deserve a better categorisation.
> DebTags is great and should definitely be used - just go for a tagging
> of these packages.
>
I'm not sure there are enough categories - physics is too coarse a
granularity - perhaps I should post some examples.
> The reason why we do not have a better categorisation is that we started
> Debian Science CDD for those sciences that did not yet have enough man power
> to maintain an own CDD. I would really love to see a Debian Physics CDD.
> Would you volunteer to care for this?
I don't think I will have the time unfortunately.
In addition, although I'm a physicist, much of what I've done has been
crystallography, so packages useful to me would pull in a significant
part of chemistry.
>
> My suggestion would be to start with creating tasks files builded according
> to the known sheme and move them to the cdd/projects space. Then we could
> build physics specific pages easily and will see whether this idea attracts
> enough people to work on a self-contained CDD. Just ask if you need any
> help.
>
I'll list some tasks and packages, and see where we go from there.
Chris
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