[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Request to Join Project Scientific Computing Debian Packages

[Christophe Prud'homme]

It is indeed great news.
Note also that I plan to work on trilinos packaging (again) before the
end of july (starting mid July).
parts of trilinos are already packaged.
trilinos [1] incorporates a library for large sparse (generalized)
eigenvalue problems [2] and in parallel

1. http://trilinos.sandia.gov/
2. http://trilinos.sandia.gov/packages/anasazi/

Best regards
C.

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Ondrej Certik <ondrej at certik.cz> wrote:
> Hi Johannes,
>
>> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:15 PM, <noreply at alioth.debian.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Johannes Ring has requested to join your project.
>>> You can approve this request here:
>>> http://alioth.debian.org/project/admin/?group_id=30921.
>>>
>>> Comments by the user:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> my name is Johannes Ring and I work as a Scientific Programmer at Simula
>>> Research Laboratory (http://www.simula.no) in Norway. Here at Simula we are
>>> focusing on development of software (mostly open source) for
>>> scientific computing and most of our researchers/developers are using
>>> Debian or Ubuntu as their development platform. We want our software to be
>>> as easy to install as possible for people running Debian/Ubuntu and we have
>>> therefore set up a couple of repositories, which I am currently the
>>> maintainer of. However, it would be even easier for the user if the packages
>>> were included in Debian/Ubuntu in the first place (no need to add sources).
>>> In that respect, I have been asked by my project leader Ola Skavhaug and
>>> Anders Logg, which is one of the main developers of the
>>> FEniCS software suite (www.fenics.org), to try to become an official
>>> Debian maintainer so that I can help in getting our packages into
>>> Debian/Ubuntu. Since I am a Debian/Ubuntu guy (started with Debian in 2000
>>> but switched to Ubuntu Breezy in 2005 when I couldn\'t get my new Thinkpad
>>> to work in Debian) I would very much like to contribute in the development
>>> of Debian by maintaining and adding new packages. I have been aware of the
>>> pkg-scicomp group for some time now and used several of the packages that
>>> are available there (like scotch, slepc, and trilinos), so I am sure that
>
> If you could help me fix slepc, it'd be nice. BTW, I just spoke with
> Jose Roman, the main author of it
> here at PMAA08 (http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/pmaa08/) and if everything
> goes well I think the next version will be opensource (LGPL),
> which is a great news.
>
>>> this is the right group for me to join. Hopefully, that is okay with you.
>>>
>>> If you want to have a look at my two repositories, they can be found at
>>>
>>> 1. http://www.fenics.org/ubuntu
>>> 2. http://packages.simula.no
>>>
>>> The first one is for FEniCS, which is a free software suite for automated
>>> solution of differential equations, and the second one is for other Simula
>>> software and some external packages. The packages is far from perfect, but
>>> nothing that can\'t be fixed.
>>>
>>> Hope to join you soon :-)
>
> Excellent, looking forward.
>
> Ondrej
>