From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NdJUO-00008R-1c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:24:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C1F7FE087F; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 08:24:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mxi2.callplus.net.nz (mxi2.callplus.net.nz [202.180.66.204]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40B85E087D for ; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 08:24:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 119-224-48-139.callplus.net.nz (HELO vrooom.localnet) ([119.224.48.139]) by ismtp02.callplus.net.nz with ESMTP; 05 Feb 2010 21:24:01 +1300 From: =?iso-8859-15?q?Fran=E7ois_Bissey?= To: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] Gentoo science status Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 21:23:59 +1300 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.3 (Linux/2.6.32-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.3.3; i686; ; ) References: <20100203093831.6b290551@gentoo.org> <20100205023346.GA20254@woodpecker.gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20100205023346.GA20254@woodpecker.gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <201002052123.59774.f.r.bissey@massey.ac.nz> X-Archives-Salt: 69442d89-1faf-4bb5-bba8-4806fa27fec7 X-Archives-Hash: 6d013e124072f817fc6af1ec937e523b Hi all, On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:33:46 Markus Dittrich wrote: > Hi S=E9bastien, >=20 > Thanks for the nice summary of the current state > of affairs. >=20 > > We also need to know whether we still want a leader. Some time ago > > the question was raised, but got no definite answer. >=20 > 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 ;) >=20 Actually Gentoo hierarchy is quite pragmatic and flexible, we can have several leads - but I guess the implication would be to effectively split into sub-project which is fine if we wanted too. > > * 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. >=20 I am not sure how people are using Gentoo here now. There is me and a PhD student for sure but the other big user in the NMR lab has left for=20 Oxford. I am not sure if they have kept their machine on Gentoo. They=20 certainly should know that I can be pinged for problems - actually I get=20 pinged for problems with any distro. =46rancois=20