Re: Outreachy 2017 (Round 14)

[Büşra Selin Pekişçi]

Hello Andreas,

I recognize Prank package at SVN i am not familiar with SVN what should i
do ? Shall i look SVN or can somebody take package to Git. Thanks for help.

Best Regards.

2017-03-20 10:46 GMT+03:00 Andreas Tille :

> Hi Büşra,
>
> On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 10:29:01PM +0300, Büşra Selin Pekişçi wrote:
> > I make request to participate Debian-Med at Alioth fyi.
>
> I accepted yesterday evening - just let us know here if you have
> problems commiting your changes.
>
> Thanks for your work on this
>
>   Andreas.
>
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Re: ezDicom

[Gert Wollny]

Hello Mark, 


I gave the program a shot running the bundled windows executable in
wine (the Windows executable is in the zip file). I think you would
probably be better off using something else - Karsten metioned
aeskulap, and gingkocadx, but also amide and xmedcon are packaged.



- it would need porting (maybe that's easy) from
>   Delphi to FreePascal
This does really seem to be a show stopper, I don't know whether
anybody here on the list has the needed expertise. 

> - the source doesn't seem to cater to being
>   compiled on Linux so may need to be ported/
>   adjusted to Linux compatibility, too
There is actually the Kylix version, which was Borlands port of Delphi
to Linux, and Lazerus, the Free Pasacal IDE, seems to have some support
for porting code, but given above programs, I don't seen that this is
really worth the effort. 

> - the license contains a no-endorsement clause
>   which may need to be checked against DFSG
AFAICS this is a pretty standard clause found in many licenses, so it
shouldn't pose a problem. 

As a real problem I see that the Dicom reader is not based on any of
the available DICOM libraries (dcmtk or gdcm), and hence new DICOM
features will not be added (unless someone knowledgable adds these to
the pascal code). 



Thanks for the pointers anyway, 

Best, 
Gert 

Re: Outreachy 2017 (Round 14)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Büşra,

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 10:29:01PM +0300, Büşra Selin Pekişçi wrote:
> I make request to participate Debian-Med at Alioth fyi.

I accepted yesterday evening - just let us know here if you have
problems commiting your changes.

Thanks for your work on this

  Andreas.

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Re: ezDicom

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

thanks to Mark for the suggestion and to Karsten for the Analysis.

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 12:31:54PM +0100, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 07:48:37AM +0100, Mark 1234 wrote:
> 
> > There's a piece of abandon-ware called ezDicom that is a fantastic
> > lightweight Dicom viewer:
> > 
> > https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezdicom/
> > 
> > The source code is provided in the link. The authors are not reachable
> > (I tried several times).
> > 
> > I wonder if this could be a candidate for your project?
> 
> Hello Mark 1234,
> 
> thanks for your suggestion.
> 
> I have had a quick look at the source code and here are *my*
> thoughts why ezdicom may not be an easy candidate for
> inclusion into Debian:
> 
> - there's currently no upstream maintainer
> 
> - there are other dicom viewers available
>   (aeskulap, gingkocadx)
>   (not that they have upstream maintainers, though :-)

For GinkgoCADx Gert Wollny has also taken over upstream maintenance[1]
 
> - it would need porting (maybe that's easy) from
>   Delphi to FreePascal

This is most probably a stumbling stone.  Usually there are issues with
this porting and I'm not aware that we have any Pascal competence in our
team.
 
> - the source doesn't seem to cater to being
>   compiled on Linux so may need to be ported/
>   adjusted to Linux compatibility, too
> 
> - the license contains a no-endorsement clause
>   which may need to be checked against DFSG

It does not sound very attractive to tackle the technical issues when
it is not clear how to cope with licensing issues.
 
> Notwithstanding, thanks for the pointer !

Definitely.  We always have quite some tradition to train newcomers with
packaging.  So anybody who *really* wants to get some package included
is welcome to do the packaging work.  We happily provide help to do so
(be it for this actual program or others you might consider interesting).

Kind regards

  Andreas.

[1] https://github.com/gerddie/ginkgocadx 

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Re: Fixes in orthanc-dicomweb and orthanc-webviewer

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Sébastien,

On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 10:22:42AM +0100, Sébastien Jodogne wrote:
> >BTW, I'd recommend considering becoming a Debian Maintainer to
> >enable you uploading yourself. :-)
> 
> Yes, I'm still looking for some Debian developer who could sign my key after
> meeting me IRL somewhere in Wallonia. I was unfortunately sick on last
> FOSDEM...

As far as I know Belgium, France and The Netherlands are quite densely settled
with DDs.  May be the key signing offer page

   https://wiki.debian.org/Keysigning/Offers#BE

might help you to find somebody close to you.

Kind regards

  Andreas.

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