Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> writes: > Hi Gard, > > Am Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 11:02:49AM +0100 schrieb Gard Spreemann: >> > I've pushed the code for the metapackages to >> > >> > https://salsa.debian.org/blends-team/math/ >> > >> > and made >> > >> > Doug Torrance >> > Julien Puydt >> > Timo Röhling >> > >> > members of the Blends team to enable currating these files (which should >> > be **really** done before announcing anything since its just a copy of the >> > two tasks from debian-science and does not make any sense in this form.) >> >> Stupid questions: What packages should go into the task? > > That's not a stupid question but the key question! > >> All mathematics >> packages? How do the categories work, and what conditions warrant a new >> category? > > You need to ask the mathematicians what might be sensible tasks. The reason I said the question was stupid is that I am in fact one of the mathematicians ;-) > The tasks mathematics and mathematics-dev are definitely non-sense > but it was the easiest way for me to kickstart something. > > Please keep in mind that tasks should be user oriented and should fit > the work ... the tasks! ... users are doing. Its extremely important to > understand that one package can be in *several* tasks. See, I didn't even know this last part. Thanks for the pointers! > So you can start with your own work, what you need and find a good > field / category for your own work and put all these into a task. Makes sense. Best, Gard
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