Re: Paraview status
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:46:15AM +0200, Christophe Prud'homme wrote:
> pkg-scicomp is active. I uploaded gmsh and some other packages recently. It
> is just that my agenda is extra full.
> Others from pkg-scicomp have been working too.
I was not accusing pkg-scicomp in general for beeing inactive. There
were some packages coming into my focus which looked a bit orphaned. I
would volunteer to help but I do not want to join just another team. So
I suggested to take over these ones.
> Sylvestre and I have been discussing the merging of pkg-scicomp in Debian
> science.??
> I think that the way to go. I certainly don't have the time to do myself but
> I can give my support for a few things.
> I claim that we have done a great job at packaging and disseminating
> scientific computing software. Some of them are major software in my area of
> expertise.
Nobody has criticised the work of pkg-scicomp. When we discussed the
packaging efforts og pkg-scicomp in the past (2007?) we tried to find a
common team for maintaining scientific software in Debian. This failed
unfortunately. I hope we can fix this smoothly.
> I recognize however that we need one big umbrella for this to work in the
> long run and help for the entire Debian/Science community
>
> Now if there is a takeover of our packages by Debian-science,
I would not call it "take over" - I would prefer the wording pkg-scicomp
people join Debian Science and we use a common repository.
> I would appreciate that is done gently and keep people
> from pkg-scicomp in the loop.
Yes, sure. I always tried to CC pkg-scicomp (I might have forgotten to
CC in a few cases) and if I did not sounded gentle - well that's my
fault and I would apologize for this.
> There are packages that are very important for
> my and my work (paraview, gmsh, trilinos, ....)
I *really*, *really* hope that the *people* will merge to Debian Science
and not only the packages. Nobody really want's to highjack packages
from people who are actively working on them. It is juat easier to use
a single repository and watch one mailing list for problems than two
with quite the same scope.
I hope that I did not stepped on somebodies shoes. It was not intended.
My goal is to find the best way to maintain scientific software in Debian.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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