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Goals

• Provide researchers and scientists a better experience using Debian.
• Classify, package and distribute free software useful to science and research.
• Support any quality efforts around free scientific software.
• Manage the efforts dealing with various implementations (MPI, BLAS, LAPACK...).

• Maintaining the Debian Science Blend

How to use it?

• You can use Debian Science just as you are using Debian because it is a completely internal project and is nothing other than Debian itself. We felt a need to found a team that works as a strike force for scientific software inside Debian.

• #metapackages provide an easy way of installing a range of software appropriate to your particular field.

Related Blends

• DebianGis

• DebianMed

• DebianAstro

metapackages

The aim of the Debian Science metapackages is to provide a useful set of packages for someone working in a specific field of science.

[1] Debtags are a means of classifying packages.

[2] RFP/ITP - Request for package / Intent to package - these are pseudo bugs that track which packages have been requested and whether someone is working on them.

[3] The list of bugs is a work in progress. It is not yet regenerated automatically, so may be out of date.

[4] The debian-science QA page at http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org&ordering=3 provides additional information.

How to join

• Debian Science has a mailing list debian-science. This mailing list should be used for general questions. If you wonder why the mailing-list reply-to is set to the author instead of the list itself, read this.

• The packaging team has also a "debian-science-maintainers" mailing list for automatically generated messages, such as BTS and Debian queue daemon messages.

Contributing to Debian Science

General advice for helping Debian is available at http://www.debian.org/intro/help in addition to the DebianScience specific suggestions below.

* If you are willing to help: DebianScience/ContributingToDebianScience & Debian Science Policy

Don't let the fact that you aren't a Debian Developer put you off - there are still lots of useful things you can do to improve the scientific software in Debian. A list of #efforts being undertaken is below.

How Non-Debian Developers can help

• Propose new scientific packages to sponsor.

• Test the software and provide informative bug reports. See http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html for one view on how to report bugs effectively

• Sometimes bugs are difficult to reproduce - you can help by reproducing them and providing test cases.
• Send patches that fix bugs to the bug tracking system.
• Translations

• Add debtags to classify packages. See http://debtags.debian.org/

How Debian Developers can help

• NMU bug fixes.
• Sponsor package uploads.
• Package useful software.

• Encourage upstream authors to release their software with a free license. DebianScienceSampleLetter may be useful for this.

Resources

• DebianEdu - a Debian project to make the best distribution for educational purposes.

• DebianMed - The Debian Med project presents packages that are associated with medicine, pre-clinical research, and life science. Its developments are mostly focused on three areas for the moment: medical practice, imaging and bioinformatics.

• DebianGis - Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

• DebianAstro - Astronomy related packages

• Inside Debian: DebianScience/DebianLinks

• Outside resources related to science or scientific projects: DebianScience/OtherLinks

• Teams/DebianScience

• DebianScience/ConferenceTools

• DebianScience/DataFormats

• DebianScience/Hardware

• DebianScience/Programming

• DebianSciencePsychology

Efforts that could be undertaken

• DebianScience/Blend - There have been efforts to create a Debian Pure Blend for Debian/Science; at the moment no installer is available.

• ?DebianScience/Debsci - Add autopkgtest to enhance debian-science package QA.

• DebianScience/LiveCD

• DebianScience/Classification

• DebianScience/Sage - Packaging the computer algebra system Sage

• DebianScience/Sponsoring

• DebianScience/UnofficialRepository

• DebianScience/Usertags

• DebianScience/Wallpapers

• DebianScience/References - Provide bibliographic references to the software and data we ship.

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