----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sandro Mani" <manisandro@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "The Science and Technology Special Interest Group mailing list." <scitech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 10:06:50 PM > Subject: Re: Fedora scientific packaging > > > On 24.11.2014 01:19, Amit Saha wrote: > > > > ----- 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 > 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 > _______________________________________________ > scitech mailing list > scitech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/scitech -- Amit Saha SED, Hosted & Shared Services Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ scitech mailing list scitech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/scitech
