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

[Johannes Ring]

Hi Ondrej,

On Mon, June 23, 2008 Ondrej Certik 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.

Yes, of course, I would be happy to help you with SLEPc. I'm not sure if I
can, but I'll do my best :-)

> 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.

Yes, that would be great.

Johannes