On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 08:52:46AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:09:49AM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > > > I hope you don't kill me either... I have not yet played with tags and > > tasks, and did not see any links to relevant documentation in your email. > > I just had the impression that I have given way to many hints to the > relevant Blends doc[1] that people become bored about this. Obviosely > this is not the case and there is in fact no real need if you read this > all. However, your e-mail is in principle sufficient to fullfill my > cry for help (probably pronounced a bit to engaged yesterday - sorry > if I sounded to harsh).
That is a lot to read... > > I maintain GLE, > > I have added it to the viewing task in SVN[2] - so this was basically > the information I needed from you as a maintainer of a package with > relevance for scientific work. You probably could have added the > > Depends: gle-graphics > > yourself ... but if nobody has pointed you to the docs it is idefinitely > not your fault (and I'll keep on bothering you all with this stuff ;-)). Ok, thanks. I guess I should update the description sometimes... that comes directly from the control file? I see there is no website mentioned, does this also come from the control file? http://glx.sourceforge.net/ > > which is still in pkg-scicomp and I guess it should be moved > > to debian-science (this has been suggested before for this or some other > > package I (co)maintain. Sombody offered to do it). > > The merge of the two science projects will definitely not come because > Sylvestre has suggested it. His offer to do the move is really brave - > but I guess he needs at least some kind of confirmation "Yes, I'm fine > if you just do it." You probably have observed cases in the past where > a maintainer was defeating others from touching his packages. Oh, but this package is MINE... ;-) No, I am fine with it, but I just know enough svn to check in my changes. I did not get svn-buildpackage to work (thats one of the reasons I prefer bzr) and I do not want to experiment to move the svn directory from pkg-scicomp to pkg-science. I just want to use the version control, not write a thesis about it. > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gle-graphics.html > > > > This package fits into the viewing task, as it is similar to gnuplot, grace, > > gri, only better (since I have been using it for 15+ years ;-) > > > > How do I add it to the task? > > As I said I've just done it and I'm volunteering to add other packages > after a notice because it is quite simple and does not really need much > time. I just started the job to render the Debian Science tasks > manually in addition to the cron job to let you all see the effect of > this change and thus you should find your package at the science viewing > task page[3] in a short time. Yes, I have seen it there, thanks. Just as I said, it is better than gnuplot, it comes before ;-) > > I just found this page: > > http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/edit.html?pkg=gle-graphics > > Should I add the use::viewing tag? What does this button... hmm > > Adding DebTags to your packages is also a very good idea. The tasks > pages support this by providing a link in case a package is not yet > DebTagged. You can read more about DebTags here[4] and you can > effectively use the DebTags database by using axi-cache (the successor > of ept-cache), a nifty tool which is some kind of so perfectly hidden > that no user does it know (as well as the Blends stuff obviosely). I thought the tag would add it to the tasks, why does it have to be done twice? > > Anything else? > > Once you are navigating to the gle-graphics section on[3] you will > notice that in contrast to other packages gle-graphics has no > screenshot. Just follow the according link and add a screenshot. > Blends is also about Quality Assurance. I really hope this stuff > makes sense to you (and you will spreed the word ;-)!) I will have a look. There are many screenshots in the glx examples page, I don't know which to pick... can I upload two? > > And how will the package move from pkg-scicomp to science? I wouldn't mind > > switching to bzr during this move... > > I guess this was explained before but I think the Draft Debian Science > Policy[5] will answer this question. In short: > > Maintainer: Debian Science Team > <debian-science-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> > Uploaders: <you>[, <other maintainer>] > > Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/?p=debian-science/gle-graphics.git OR > Vcs-Svn: > svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-science/packages/gle-graphics/trunk/ > > (Git or SVN at your preference, no bzr). Subscribing to the maintainers > list (prehaps the commit list) as well as to the discussion list[6] > makes sense. That's all. And even more to read... I think the package that was suggested for the move is xmds. http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xmds.html That should probably be added to the tasks as well, but I am not quite sure where. It solves differential equations, so probably math. There are many examples for physics, engineering, chemistry. So it could be in those tasks as well? Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-science-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100813094016.ga28...@chumley.debian.net
