Hi Tony, On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 12:59:46PM +0100, Tony Travis wrote: > > [...] > > This is a bit of a side-track from the core of this thread. Maybe we > > would have Tony describing our achievements one they are manifesting in > > Bio-Linux. And if we have a look at > > https://salsa.debian.org/dashboard/milestones ? Maybe we can use those > > as an anchor for achievements from which news could be generated in an > > easier way, not necessarily by us. > > Yes, I would be happy to do that.
I admit I do not mind about some proposed technique. I think the person who is doing the actual publicity work should freely choose the channel for communication. > I plan to base Bio-Linux 9 on Debian-Med + Bioconda and would like to > start adding Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) versions of Debian-Med packages to > the Debian-Med PPA if nobody objects. I also want to drop ALL the 'bad' > NEBC packages (i.e. the binary-only packages that Bela and Tim used > initially to migrate from Debian testing (Sarge) to Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. Please let us know if we should enforce packaging efforts for certain packages you consider very important. As I have seen for some older packages the licencing is frequently the only blocker, technical issues are easy to solve. > I've listened to Andreas: I intend to create a "bio-linux-desktop" > meta-package modelled on the Debian-Med/Bio* tasks that are now being > updated to include some 'missing' packages that were only in Bio-Linux. Feel free to discuss this here. > Thanks again to all in the Debian-Med team for your help and support, You are welcome Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de