[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Adding FEniCS to repository

[Johannes Ring]

Hi Christophe,

On Fri, October 17, 2008 09:32, Christophe Prud'homme wrote:
> Johannes
>
> that's a great contribution !!
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Johannes Ring <johannr at simula.no> wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> Sorry for being completely inactive since I requested to join the
>> pkg-scicomp team. I have mostly been occupied with other things,
>> however,
>> I have also completely rewritten the debian files for most of the FEniCS
>> packages (this time using cdbs). Now it is time for new releases
>> (http://www.fenics.org/pipermail/dolfin-dev/2008-October/010144.html)
>> and
>> I see this as a good time for me to put in some effort to get FEniCS
>> into
>> Debian. Therefore, I would like to add my files to the pkg-scicomp
>> Subversion repository. Can I simply use my Alioth account
>> (johannr-guest)
>> to commit files to the repository
> yes go ahead
>
> I can take care of building the packages then and upload. Let me know
> when it is ready.

Ok, great! They are probably ready sometimes during the next week.

>> or do I need to be added to the
>> pkg-scicomp-common/accounts file first?
> the accounts file is there to ensure that the name and email of the
> contributors  appear nicely
> when commits are made and sent to pk-scicomp-commits
> I just updated the file with your alioth account and committed it

Thanks!

>>
>> This is the FEniCS packages that I would like to add: DOLFIN, FErari,
>> FFC,
>> FIAT, Instant, SyFi, UFC, and Viper. A short description of each of them
>> is given below.
> Thank you for the various descriptions
> this is indeed a very important contribution for Debian

Good, I'll start adding files soon. If you (or anyone else) has any
comments or suggestions, please let me know.

Johannes