Hi Sébastien,

Thanks for the nice summary of the current state
of affairs.

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

I think if we decide that we want a leader we should clearly
define what we expect her/him to do. We're a very diverse
bunch and the packages in science.g.o span a wide range of
fields so I am not 100% convinced that a lead will necessarily
be very effective. On the other hand, there are a few things
that definitely need improvement, documentation and eclasses
being some candidates here, and it might be nice to have somebody
who feels responsible and coordinates/delegates a bit. I'd
probably need a nudge once in a while ;)

> * 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.

Better docs are definitely something we need. It would probably be
good to either have a dev or maybe one of our users assess and then
coordinate this a bit.

cheers,
Markus

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Markus Dittrich (markusle)
Gentoo Linux Developer
Scientific applications