Contributing To Debian Science
Services for developers
Web sites:
Mailing lists:
Public IRC channel: #debian-science on irc.debian.org (OFTC)
Specialties
Since there are many different specialties in Science, we tried to separate package into specialties. By default, packages goes into Debian Science.
Please note that chemistry/biochemistry and medical free software are already handled by two other Debian projects:
Debichem: chemistry/biochemistry
Debian Med: Medicine, pre-clinical research, and life science (see the list of actively maintained biological packages from Debian Med team)
Git version control system for Debian Science
We have also a GIT service hosted here: https://salsa.debian.org/science-team
For more info, see threads about workflow and converting from svn
Group Policy
The group-policy is online at https://science-team.pages.debian.net/policy/.
Its source is stored in a git repository:
$ git clone https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/policy.git or $ git clone git@salsa.debian.org:science-team/policy.git $ make (Needs xmlto)
The draft of the policy will then be built to debian-science-policy.html.
If you make changes, push them back to this repository.
TODO List
- Update packages to match the policy
Add those free software projects which we should package to the tasks files to enhance the list of our packages by prospective packages (see the yellow and red entries)
- Communicate around this group