From: "Sandro Mani" <manisandro(a)gmail.com>
To: "The Science and Technology Special Interest Group mailing list."
<scitech(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 10:06:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Scitech] Fedora scientific packaging
On 24.11.2014 01:19, Amit Saha wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Sandro Mani" <manisandro(a)gmail.com>
>> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora"
>> <devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>, scitech(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>> Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 5:32:43 AM
>> Subject: Fedora scientific packaging
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Some time ago I started working on packaging Salome, the platform for
>> numerical simulation. As always, time is a limited resource, and things
>> kinda stalled after hitting a few issues here and there, despite most of
>> the work being done. Now, with Jiri Kastner joining the effort, we
>> decided that it would be nice to attempt to make the effort of packaging
>> scientific packages for Fedora in general more public, in particular
>> considering the scientific-spin effort [1].
>> Many of the larger scientific packages tend to be very complex and their
>> build systems occasionally somewhat fragile... So getting more
>> interested people involved would likely increase the chances of the
>> efforts succeeding.
>>
>> That said, there is now a github repo which contains the
>> work-in-progress stuff for packaging Salome (and some initial OpenFOAM
>> work) here [2]. People interested in joining these efforts or sharing
>> initial work on other scientific packages are very welcome to join the
>> github project.
>
> This is great. I created the Fedora Scientific organization on GitHub some
> time back [1].
> Do you think you would want to get your repo moved here? I can of course
> make you an admin,
> member, etc.
>
> [1]
https://github.com/FedoraScientific
Ah, definitely, happy to move things there!
Great. so, perhaps just move all the sub-projects here? Can you PM me
your GitHub username and I can add you?
Thanks,
Amit.
Best,
Sandro
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