Hi Doug, Thanks for doing this! On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 05:31:20PM +0000, Torrance, Douglas wrote: > During the Debian Science BoF at this year's DebConf, there was some > discussion of creating a team devoted to packaging mathematical software. > > This seemed like a pretty good idea, so I figured that I'd go ahead and > start working on getting it set up. I've already created a Salsa group [1] > and a team on the Debian Package Tracker [2]. > If you're interested in > joining, then you should be able to sign up at these links. I requested access on salsa, please consider adding me with access level >= maintainer and signed up at the tracker too. > I figured next would be applying for a mailing list, putting together a team policy, etc. Any thoughts? As discussed privately as well, I think these are the tasks: == Main tasks == * Creating a debian-math@lists.debian.org mailing list * If possible, ask for an alioth mailing list for tracking packaging changes * Setting up a wiki page about the team, pointing to various links (mailing list, salsa, policy et. al.) * Moving math related packages from science -> math team on salsa and on tracker + We need to make a list here. Some math packages in science team, some in R team + Sagemath has a separate mailing list, and it might make sence to merge them * Setting up a policy -- which we could largely inherit from the science-team one * Updating and uploading math-team packages * Seek more volunteers :) == Additional tasks for blends == * Creating a debian-math metapackage * Add math to blends team and track the qa stuff @Andreas (in CC), can you help setting up the latter part? If someone has more suggestions, and would like helping, please let us know. Kind Regards, Nilesh
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