From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FrlDk-0007BC-4t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 00:32:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5I0VROe015658; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 00:31:27 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [216.148.227.151]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5I0VOPI016490; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 00:31:25 GMT Received: from [24.21.55.62] (c-24-21-55-62.hsd1.or.comcast.net[24.21.55.62]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <20060618003123m1100b31ale>; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 00:31:23 +0000 Message-ID: <44949EBD.8000404@cesmail.net> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 17:30:53 -0700 From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060602) 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 To: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org CC: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] Scientific Gentoo reorg References: <200606171925.20119.george@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200606171925.20119.george@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9ecd948c-96d9-4545-8336-a8d2580ed59d X-Archives-Hash: 30d2d76c572d6a0fcc6bd33a9cf86195 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 :). -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://linuxcapacityplanning.com -- gentoo-science@gentoo.org mailing list