Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (235 mails)

[Werner Hoch <werner.ho@xxxxxx>]

Hi Alin,

On Freitag, 17. September 2010, Alin Marin Elena wrote:
> On 16 September 2010 20:44, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> > 
> >  Creating a repo is a simple matter of filing a bugzilla requesting
> > one iirc.  The more difficult task is building all the packages
> > and pushing them into the repo(s).  But again all of the above can
> > be down by anyone.
>
> a science repo exists already so no need to create it
>
> what I want is to bring it alive... and useful for scientists.
> freeze cycles that govern distro and education make them irrelevant
> for the scientific community.
> some packages have to be updated pretty often due to addition of new
> features or fixes of bugs.

Yes the science repository needs more love or should be merged into the 
Education repository.

> the scientific computational community is not a big one in numbers...
> but is a community in which linux is predominant and unfortunately is
> not opensuse...
>
> if opensuse wants to make itself relevant at desk level for
> scientists providing a rich and up to date science repo is crucial.
>
> on gromacs the version offered is 3.3.1 the current version is 4.5.1.
> also only sequential version is offered.
>
> have you ever tried to push anything to the science repo?

I'm sorry. I wasn't very active over the last year. I've only maintained 
the rpms for electronical engineering and some python packages.

I think we need a few more active maintainers if we like to have an up 
to date science repository.

If you'd like to take care of the chemistry/physics packages, you're of 
course very welcome. I can add you to the maintainer list, too.

Regards
Werner

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