From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IhV1h-0001ZI-Cf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:50:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9FIdMrY019466; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:39:22 GMT Received: from smtp1.ist.utl.pt (smtp1.ist.utl.pt [193.136.128.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9FIdLab019460 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:39:21 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp1.ist.utl.pt (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEBDD7001140 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:39:21 +0100 (WEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.4.2 (20060627) (Debian) at ist.utl.pt Received: from smtp1.ist.utl.pt ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp1.ist.utl.pt [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with LMTP id Onoi4LnlYWRw for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:39:19 +0100 (WEST) Received: from mail.ist.utl.pt (mail.ist.utl.pt [193.136.128.8]) by smtp1.ist.utl.pt (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8300F7001055 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:39:19 +0100 (WEST) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (89-180-94-15.net.novis.pt [89.180.94.15]) by mail.ist.utl.pt (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5334C1400315 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:39:09 +0100 (WEST) Subject: [gentoo-science] sci team help From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?= Fabbro To: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-s2N8SuT4+VdshTE5xYCJ" Organization: Gentoo Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:39:02 +0100 Message-Id: <1192473542.9282.74.camel@zeca> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-science@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 X-Archives-Salt: 9dec1474-757c-487d-8d53-9d1233c23f15 X-Archives-Hash: 16d99404ef62e55ee3e064c05b6a24b6 --=-s2N8SuT4+VdshTE5xYCJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, I would like to call for help for the sci team. Lately, we are taking care of sometimes old packages, sometimes packages that we don't use but are quite popular so we want to keep in the tree. Our time is limited, bug list is barely reducing, and requests for new packages are piling up. There are plenty of interesting projects the sci team could start. But we just don't do because we are understaffed. Examples of such projects are: grid-aware tools, homepage page renewal, more docs, test-suites for packages, more collaboration with hp-cluster. I also know some widely used packages are not in the tree because they need a lot of time to package/maintain. In my field such examples are: iraf and midas in sci-astronomy, geant-4 in hep, R-packages, many numerical libraries, etc... So what could we do to get more help: call for new recruits, convince more devs to join the sci herd, get proxied packages, more overlay maintainers? (in the past, there was a similar thread [1]). I could train a new dev in anyone interested, I would have more time in 2 weeks. Regards, -- S=C3=A9bastien [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.science/272 --=-s2N8SuT4+VdshTE5xYCJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHE7PG1ycZbhPLE2ARAjzaAJ9E+Un3ktHci5htTb2pygzM59t+jACeOMAm XItqLOSaDtP/3qVjPSmtsHs= =EWlf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-s2N8SuT4+VdshTE5xYCJ-- -- gentoo-science@gentoo.org mailing list