----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sandro Mani" <manisandro@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, scitech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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 Thanks, Amit. _______________________________________________ scitech mailing list scitech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/scitech
