[gentoo-dev] Scientific Gentoo reorg: lets get it moving

[gentoo-dev] Scientific Gentoo reorg: lets get it moving

[George Shapovalov]

Hi gang

It looks like we got all the coments we could get, so lets get done with it 
then. What's left is minor legwork that is best done by the maintainers of 
the individual herds, here is the approximate list:

Herds:

0. If you feel you did not polish up the idea of a particular herd or category 
enough and you have not created a bug for it (blocking #138049, the tracker) 
I suggest you finally do it - it will become much more apparent then what to 
do..

0.5 Decide on the herd name.

1. Edit gentoo/misc/herds.xml and add the entry for the corresponding herd, 
listing developers who ended up maintaining it.

2. Adjust metatdata.xml files for the packages that should belong to it (the 
ones in the corresponding category are of course prime candidates, but dont 
forget to check sci-libs as well and check if there any others outside that 
you are aware of).

3. Create an alias for this new herd. It is probably best if the alias matches 
the name of the herd - bugwranglers will have no problem assigning the bugs 
then..
The aliases are on dev.g.o under /var/mail/alias (your dev login will allow 
you to access/modify them) and I would encourage the maintainers of these 
herds to create these aliases, so that you have more controll over your mails 
and I do not screw up (and not end up with people asking me for a trivial 
modifications many month aft the reorg :)).

Caterogies:

Looks like right now only sci-crystallography could make sense, as there are 
enough people and packages behind it.

sci-proof - saw some activity but I understand that most of the proposed 
packages are not in the tree yet. May start as a herd and transition to the 
category when enough packages go in..

sci-physics - many packages were listed, so a candidate, but I did not get a 
clear impression of how "finalized" the idea was and how many people finally 
decided to stay behind it.

George
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Scientific Gentoo reorg: lets get it moving

[Luis Medinas]

On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 12:29 +0200, George Shapovalov wrote:
> sci-physics - many packages were listed, so a candidate, but I did not get a 
> clear impression of how "finalized" the idea was and how many people finally 
> decided to stay behind it.

There's a problem with this. A few packages i listed could be part of
sci-crystallography too. If we start this new category we should had a
few more related packages otherwise we will have this category empty.
Another thing is who is really insterested in creating this sub-herd ?
cryos and markusle are still in ? If not there's a possibility to mentor
a candidate and start this thing for real.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Scientific Gentoo reorg: lets get it moving

[George Shapovalov]

субота, 1. липень 2006 13:02, Luis Medinas Ви написали:
> On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 12:29 +0200, George Shapovalov wrote:
> > sci-physics - many packages were listed, so a candidate, but I did not
> > get a clear impression of how "finalized" the idea was and how many
> > people finally decided to stay behind it.
>
> There's a problem with this. A few packages i listed could be part of
> sci-crystallography too. If we start this new category we should had a
> few more related packages otherwise we will have this category empty.
> Another thing is who is really insterested in creating this sub-herd ?
> cryos and markusle are still in ? If not there's a possibility to mentor
> a candidate and start this thing for real.
Well, kugelfang has expressed an interest (in a "me too" way) just recently on 
irc. So, what about interested people create a bug (blocking that tracker 
138049) and polish it up there (the packages that should go in that 
category/stay elsewhere, who does what, etc..)? This is exactly why I said I 
did not get a clear idea of what was the conclusion about this category :).

If this bug does not get created then it would mean there is not enough 
interest of course. Another possibility is a herd, with packages staying 
where they are. The procedure can be similar, or whatever discussion medium 
suits interested people the best..

There were suggestions (for the packages and an interested user, although I 
understood that he does not have time or persistent internet connection right 
now) on gentoo-science list. If the bug gets created I can post the relevant 
fragments to it..

George

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Scientific Gentoo reorg: lets get it moving

[Alexandre Buisse]

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On Sat, Jul  1, 2006 at 13:36:10 +0200, George Shapovalov wrote:

> Hi gang
> 
> It looks like we got all the coments we could get, so lets get done with it 
> then. What's left is minor legwork that is best done by the maintainers of 
> the individual herds, here is the approximate list:

math-proof is all done. For now, there is only me in herds.xml, let me
know if someone is interested in joining.
As a sidenote, you need to bribe an infra member to create a new alias,
as /var/mail/alias/misc is only r-x.

 
> Caterogies:
> 
> sci-proof - saw some activity but I understand that most of the proposed 
> packages are not in the tree yet. May start as a herd and transition to the 
> category when enough packages go in..

My ebuild for agda is almost ready (there are still a couple of issues
with emacs site-lisp directory) and there are at least 5 or 6 more that
I would like to add, though creating ebuilds may prove quite difficult.

Regards,
/Alexandre
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Scientific Gentoo reorg: lets get it moving

[Donnie Berkholz]

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Luis Medinas wrote:
> There's a problem with this. A few packages i listed could be part of
> sci-crystallography too. If we start this new category we should had a
> few more related packages otherwise we will have this category empty.
> Another thing is who is really insterested in creating this sub-herd ?
> cryos and markusle are still in ?

I also am a crystallographer, as is one of our new recruits.

Thanks,
Donnie


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