[med-svn] r9988 - in trunk/community: . bits

Tue Mar 13 14:00:06 UTC 2012

Author: tille
Date: 2012-03-13 14:00:06 +0000 (Tue, 13 Mar 2012)
New Revision: 9988

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   trunk/community/bits/2012-03_bits
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Commit proposal for Debian Med bits announcement.  Please review (specifically paragraph 6 regarding bibliographic data)


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+Hi,
+
+in this bits:
+  1. Debian Med Bug Squashing Advent Calendar 2011
+  2. Anniversary of Debian Med
+  3. Second Debian Med sprint (Southport, 27th-29th January 2012)
+  4. Mentoring of Month (MoM)
+  5. DDs who came to Debian because of Debian Med
+  6. Future plans
+  7. General lessons learned
+
+1. Debian Med Bug Squashing Advent Calendar 2011
+------------------------------------------------
+
+In December last year Thorsten Alteholz has started a nice QA
+initiative[1a] which might be interesting for other teams next Advent.
+The Debian Med team was able to fix about 70 bugs in this time.  Thanks
+to Thorsten for this nice piece of motivation and thanks to everybody
+who took part in the bug squashing.
+
+ [1a] http://debian-med.alteholz.de/advent/
+
+2. Anniversary of Debian Med
+----------------------------
+
+On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 the Debian Med project was first officially
+announced.  I submitted a short blog posting[2b] about this and
+perhaps you might like to see a long sequence of talks[2c] about
+this topic.
+
+ [2a] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/01/msg00454.html
+ [2b] http://debianmed.blogspot.com/2012/01/10-anniversary-of-debian-med-posted-by.html
+ [2c] http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/
+
+3. Second Debian Med sprint (Southport, 27th-29th January 2012)
+---------------------------------------------------------------
+
+In end of January 2012 the Debian Med team has met to the second
+sprint[3a].  As last year I would call this a very successfull event and
+I would recommend other teams to instanciate such meetings as well.
+Feel free to read my more verbose report[3b].
+
+ [3a] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/Meeting/Southport2012
+ [3b] http://debianmed.blogspot.com/2012/02/report-from-debian-med-sprint-posted-by.html
+
+
+4. Mentoring of Month (MoM)
+---------------------------
+
+I have started this project[4a] for the following reasons:
+  * gather more manpower to the team
+  * strengthen connections to upstream (which might become MoM students)
+  * help shy people to become more verbose
+  * to learn myself about potential problems of people who do not feel fit for
+    packaging tasks
+I made a short summary how the first MoM project worked (bottom of [3a]).
+
+ [4a] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM
+
+
+5. DDs who came to Debian because of Debian Med
+-----------------------------------------------
+
+After realising that several members of the Debian Med team finally
+became DDs I made a little survey[5a] to find out about their reasons to
+become DD / DM.  I came to the conclusion that a Blend could be a nice
+entry point for people to join Debian because newcomers can identify
+themselves with a known topic (the scope of the Blend - in this case
+medicine and bioinformatics) first and learn Debian rules in a team with
+common interest.  This perfectly fits my expectation which I had from
+the beginning 10 years ago and I would be very happy if other Blends
+would follow this example to be nice, inviting and try to *actively*
+ask people for cooperation (see some simple rules which I learned in
+this process below).
+
+ [5a] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/Developers
+
+
+6. Future plans
+---------------
+
+Currently some heavy work regarding bringing bibliographic references
+about packages straight into package information is going on.  This
+topic is specifically interesting in Biology because programs are
+frequently connected to some publication about the methods used inside
+the code.  This topic is as well relevant to Debian Science and
+DebiChem.  Thanks to the patient work done by Charles Plessy we now have
+about 70 packages featuring debian/upstream files [6a] featuring
+bibliographic references and there is ongoing work to move these data to
+UDD[6b] to enable further usage.  We are in the process of final
+polishing the format and finishing scripts for the import.  If people
+are interested to join this effort this would be the right moment to
+raise their hand.
+
+ [6a] http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata
+ [6b] http://wiki.debian.org/UltimateDebianDatabase
+
+7. General lessons learned
+--------------------------
+
+   I. Do not let wait anybody who wants to do work.
+  II. Newcomers are frequently shy - try to invite them kindly and
+      patiently. [4a]
+ III. Tell people verbosely about your project - it is astonishing
+      how less people know and what wrong assumptions they make
+      about your project.
+
+-- 
+http://fam-tille.de


