Hi Boris, On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 12:34:05PM +0300, Boris Pek wrote: > > Sorry for a late reply to this thread. But I am wondering: why have you > decided to make a separate Salsa group instead of making of special > subgroup in Debian Science Team group?
Some additional arguments in addition to what Charles said: * There were R packages from different teams (Debian Science and Debian Med currently, DebiChem also has R packages which are not yet merged). We want to have a common R team. * In Debian there are somehow topic based teams (some are organised as Blends like Debian Science and Debian Med) and technique (mostly programming language) based teams (Python, Perl, etc.) In many cases you can argue whether a package belongs to a certain topic (or in which of the several potential topics) or the technical team. While R is clearly science oriented Debian Science might be the natural place but R is also a programming language. The people who contributed to the decision (including me) consider the advantage to maintain R packages in a technical team higher than to keep everything in Debian Science. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de