Hi all, Am Donnerstag 08 Dezember 2005 17:34 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > On 8 December 2005 at 16:55, Andreas Tille wrote:
> What is the story with emboss? Couldn't find it for the currently ongoing > preparations of the next Quantian update. Are there binaries somewhere? EMBOSS would be lovely to have, indeed. > | > [ It is also unclear, at least to me, whether adding some 120 (for > | > BioC) packages (or 600-some in the case of CRAN) to Debian en bloc is > | > wise. ] But I want the apt-get'ability of CRAN and BioC, maybe from > | > outside archives. > | > | If you and probably other people as well who are interested in biological > | research I see no reason to keep these packages outside the official > | Debian > > That is exactly the rub: I am not a BioC user, and I can't be the default > maintainer for another few dozen (or dozen squared) packages. Could we arrange a BioC repository for Alioth? > | archive. I know that Debian-Med has at least one effect: We are winning > | users in the field of biology and medicine and we are winning them > | because we are at least promising to care for them - even if we proceed > | slowly. > > Yes, and hopefully one day we'll be able to lean on someone with the need > and the know to coordinate that. It would help in my understanding if not every maintainer of a package would be required to become a full DD for the submission of updates. The acceptance as a DD is quite a hurdle. > | > Now, to make this a tad more actionable: Would someone want to make > | > revival of this an item for the suggested Estremedura workshops and get > | > some people in the same room for two or three days to push this > | > further? Anybody care to run with that idea and organise it? > | > | Extremadura workshop about R? I guess this is a great idea! Even if I > | will not take part in one of the first announced meetings I hope to be > | there in at least one at the end of the year. > > Yes, it would be excellent to get a few interested people together to work > on this. I have never thought of it, but for BioC it should be possible to have such events sponsored by some pharma directly, be it as Extremadura or elsewhe(re| n). Maybe this would be a question for the BioC mailing list, I'll crosscheck with the people I know. Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]