Re: Science and Education repos/ Scientific packages

Hi Alin,

On Donnerstag, 16. September 2010, Alin Marin Elena wrote:
> I am trying to solve the mysteries of science and education repos
> from our obs. All these are done in order to understand and see how
> the opensuse can provide in an efficient centralised way (aka one
> repo) packages for science/research community.

The science repository is pretty old. I've started it several years to 
package mainly packages for electronic engineering.
 
> Please have in mind that software developed and used by
> scientists/researchers a lot of time is far away from what we call
> good software engineering practise. Frequent releases are a common
> feature, sometimes the release concept does not exist at all. So if
> we want to help attract the research community in the opensuse world
> we will need a repo that accommodates their ways of working.

> First I would like to know what is the Education repo and what is the
> science repo..
> which of them would be the best place to push scientific packages.

To me it seems that the Education repository was started to create 
packages for highschool pupil.
Later they've added more and more packages that could be used for 
science/engineering/research, too.

As Education has way more packages we can also discuss to merge the 
repositories together.
 
> My expertise is in physics/chemistry software and of course I can
> lend it to the opensuse community.

Great.

Regards
Werner
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