[gentoo-science] Gentoo science status

["Sébastien Fabbro" <bicatali@gentoo.org>]

Hello all,

I wanted to get heads up for our science project.

* Manpower:
  First our under staffed recruitment team found some time to
  turn Justin Lecher (jlec) an official Gentoo developer who
  hasn't stopped into helping for the science and chemistry packages.
  Welcome Justin!
  We have a couple of people also in the mentoring process who will be
  great new addition to the team. And as always we need more hands. So
  anyone interested, contact the sci team.

  We also need to know whether we still want a leader. Some time ago
  the question was raised, but got no definite answer.

* Bugs:
  I have not done the counts, but I see we are actually improving quite
  a bit and killing a lot of old and nasty bugs. I think we are still

* Documentation: 
  We need to revamp our project documentation. I started some doc in
  our overlay [1] long time ago, but feel free to update, propose
  patches or rewrite it entirely if you don't like it. Denis had some
  electronics docs in his site, so we could also merge it. A wiki would
  be very nice, but first it would be worth checking how many people are
  actually using Gentoo for science.
  One another simple thing is also add a <longdescription> tag in the
  metadata.xml of our packages which I think useful to discover quickly
  a new package and give credits for upstream.

* Projects:
  - Do not forget to test the g-octave project from Raphael [2], he
    needs feedback.
  - Sage on Gentoo [3] is slowly but surely becoming a reality thanks to
    Christoper and Francois.
  - A reminder for all of you to test the multiple MPI implementation
    system [4] put together by Justin Bronder
  - I plan to update the blas-lapack and the Fortran frameworks with
    long overdue package updates before the Summer. Contact me if you
    want to help.

[1] http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/sci.git;a=tree;f=docs
[2] http://g-octave.rafaelmartins.eng.br/
[3] http://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo
[4] http://dev.gentoo.org/~jsbronder/empi.xml


Best,

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Sebastien