On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:19:24PM +0100, Jan Kurik wrote: > = Proposed Self Contained Change: Astronomy Spin = > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Astronomy_Spin > > Change owner(s): > * Christian Dersch <lupinix at mailbox dot org > > > A Fedora Spin providing a complete toolchain for both amateur and > professional astronomers. > > == Detailed Description == > In both amateur and professional astronomy and astrophysics Linux is a > very popular operating system. More and more data analysis is > performed using Python, especially the astropy project is a quite new > effort providing a professional toolchain. The Astronomy Spin provides > a complete scientific Python environment (2 and 3) as well as the > AstrOmatic software. For observational astronomy, KStars provides a > complete solution for astrophotography using the INDI library. In > addition to an astronomical collection of packages the spin also adds > a menu for astronomy to make work more comfortable. I'm struggling to see the point in doing this as a Fedora Spin, as opposed to just providing a yum 'Astronomy' group that can be installed on any Fedora deployment ? It would seem to be useful to a broader set of users that way. Alternatively IIUC there is also already a Fedora 'Scientific' spin which seems to aim to bundle together scientific tools, of which astronomy tools would seem to be a subset. So why not just bundle astronomy tools into that spin giving users a much broader & more useful set of functionality ? Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
