Hello Debian-ers,
We (ELIXIR Tools Platform) have been working a lot on the Tools Platform
lately. One of the major contributors is Debian Med, and collecting the
package metadata from you will soon enable:
- cross-linking between e.g. bio.tools and Debian Med packages
- cross-validation and enrichment of metadata.
Speaking of which, our current setup is very convenient for us: we can
update Debian metadata at any time, and use it to produce better tool
descriptions. *But*, one thing which is unclear is how we can contribute
back some metadata to your packages. Would there be any kind of interest on
your side in e.g. opening Merge Requests on salsa when some metadata can
use some update? If so, should our system open these MRs automatically or
semi-automatically (assuming we can define precisely when a metadata
difference mandates a correction on the Debian side)?
Cheers,
Hervé and Matus
