Re: Really cool responses! (Was: Summary of Debian Science BOF at DebConf)
Le Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 01:47:50PM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
>
> well, I would have loved really cool responses to the summary and todo
> list of the Debian Science Workshop. Did we completely lost momentum
> after DebConf or is just everybody busy fixing RC bugs for a soon
> Squeeze release???
>
> The only result of my mails was an edit from Yaroslav who clarified
> the BibTeX suggestion. Anything else?
Dear Andreas and everybody,
a couple of weeks ago, I tested and committed to the UDD Subversion repository
a gatherer for the contents of debian/upstream-metadata.yaml files
(<http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata>). I am still very unexperienced
with the UDD, so I feel very reluctant to activate the new table in the real
UDD by myself.
The umegaya (Upstream MEtadata GAthered with YAml) system can be used to
distribute bibliographic information for our packages, without the need of
parsing a BiBTex file. It is not meant to replace BiBTex files that we would
supply within the package to our users for a direct as a reference in
documents. Whether a .bib file would be the source of a .yaml file or the
reverse is best decided by the maintainers on a case-by-case basis, although I
guess that the choices will probably be influenced by the first convenience
tools to appear.
My primary goal when I invented the umegaya system was reduce the size of the
tasks files, that have grown big since metadata used in the web sentinels has
been included. With this metadata transferred, we can again have lists on
comma-separated packages on folded lines, which allow to review the contents of
a task within a single screen.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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