[med-svn] r18735 - in trunk/community: . releasenotes

[Andreas Tille]

Author: tille
Date: 2015-02-03 06:36:04 +0000 (Tue, 03 Feb 2015)
New Revision: 18735

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   trunk/community/releasenotes/
   trunk/community/releasenotes/jessie
Log:
Inject some preliminary text for Jessie release notes


Added: trunk/community/releasenotes/jessie
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+Twelve years ago we started with the goal to make Debian the
+distribution of choice for people working in medicine and biology.
+These days it is probably better to say Debian and its derivatives
+which are profiting from the work of the Debian Med team as well.
+
+Today we can say at least in the field of biology we have approached
+this goal since at least in the field of biology you will not find any
+other distributions with such a wide range of *tested* software
+coverage.
+
+The Debian Med team has succeeded in increasing the number of packages
+since the last Debian release (Wheezy) in several tasks.  For instance
+the number of packages that are useful for the maintenance of a medical
+practice has increased from 6 to 10 and the number of packages dealing
+with medical imaging was bumped from 71 to 92.  An important step for
+the acceptance of Debian in hospitals was done by getting GT.M packaged
+since this is the underlying database engine for VistA.  However, the
+largest step was (again) done in the bioinformatics task of Debian Med.
+While in Wheezy 172 packages for application in biology and the
+development of such applications existed we have now 283 packages in
+this field.
+
+Partly this number was not increased by packaging only new software
+but also by negotions with upstream authors to free their code and
+thus we were able to move packages from non-free to main Debian.  The
+most prominent package here is PHYLIP (and thus also its dependencies).
+
+However, we did not only care for the number of packages.  Specifically
+the biological software is used by scientists who depend on reproducible
+results in their work.  To guarantee this we applied Debian means to
+test the quality of packages.  On one hand this is done at package build
+time where we tried hard to run any available test suite provided by the
+upstream authors.  Since debhelper 9 does this automatically for
+standard test suites we bumped nearly all packages to this compatibility
+level.  We also tried hard to rebuild also those packages where the
+upstream code did not changed on one hand to profit from this testing on
+the other hand to possibly gain from new optimisation features of newer
+compilers.
+
+In addition to these tests at build time we tried hard to provide
+autopkgtests (DEP8) to a lot of packages.  This ensures that the package
+produeces the same results even if prerequisites might have changed.
+This way we tried our best to support scientists in their attempt to
+get reproducible results.
+
+
+# enhanced teamwork
+
+# sprints