Re: [gentoo-science] Scientific Gentoo reorg

["M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@cesmail.net>]

George Shapovalov wrote:
> So, right now I would like to ask for the feedback on the following:
>
> Q1) I would like to hear about the reasons why people are afraid to join the 
> sci team. You may respond to me personally or raise it on the list, but 
> please let me/us know about the problems in any case, so that we may address 
> them!
>   
Not so much afraid as spread too thin between my day job and hobby
computing. I just wouldn't be able to fill a role beyond tester without
giving up something else I really love to do. :)
> Q2) Please let me know if you are supporting or occasionally touching some 
> package under sci-* and, assuming we create more herds, which herd it should 
> belong to (just make it up as you see fit right now) and whether you would be 
> willing to add yourself to the alias of that herd or join some subteam if we 
> create one. I will collect the responces and then compile a proposal for the 
> new structure.
>   
I have some ideas for breaking up the larger chunks. For example,
"sci-mathematics" could be broken into symbolic and numeric, the latter
picking up "blas-atlas" and "lapack-atlas". I'd move everything from
sci-libs into its functional area ... blas-atlas and lapack-atlas to
math/numeric, , the graphics libraries to sci-visualization, etc.
> Q3) Not relevant to this restructuring, but always usefull: if you know of 
> some package that you think should really go under sci-something, please let 
> us know!
>   
Everything I use actively is there already, plus a lot of stuff I have
no interest in. There are a couple of Markov modeling packages I'd like
to see that are in pretty good shape -- PRISM from
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~dxp/prism/ and PEPA Workbench from
ttp://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s9905941/jPEPA/. Neil Gunther's "PDQ"
(http://www.perfdynamics.com/Tools/PDQcode.html) would be a nice
addition. A good open-source discrete event simulator would be nice. The
most popular seems to be C++SIM (http://cxxsim.ncl.ac.uk/)
> And to finish it all up :)
> Q4) If you are a user but would like to be involved more actively, or you have 
> to run that particular package for your work but it sits in bugzilla for ages 
> and no developer seems sensible enough to take it up, please let us know too. 
>   
Yeah, but see Q1 :).

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

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