[med-svn] [Git][med-team/community/communication][master] Add potential release notes for trixie

[Andreas Tille (@tille)]

Andreas Tille pushed to branch master at Debian Med / community / communication


Commits:
7e62ac82 by Andreas Tille at 2023-05-26T08:59:38+02:00
Add potential release notes for trixie

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2 changed files:

- + releasenotes/09_stretch/release-notes.patch
- + releasenotes/13_trixie/release-notes.patch


Changes:

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releasenotes/09_stretch/release-notes.patch
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+<title>News from Debian Med Blend</title>
+
+    <para>Besides several new packages and updates for software targeting
+    life sciences and medicine, the Debian Med team has again put a focus on 
+    the quality of the provided packages.  In a GSoC project and an 
+    Outreachy project, two students worked hard to add Continuous Integration 
+    support to the packages with the highest popularity-contest usage
+    statistics.  The latest Debian Med sprint in Bucharest also
+    concentrated on package testing.
+    </para><para>
+    To install packages maintained by the Debian Med team, install the
+    metapackages named med-*, which are at version 3.0.1 for Debian stretch.
+    Feel free to visit the
+    <ulink url="http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks">Debian Med tasks pages</ulink>
+    to see the full range of biological and medical software available in Debian.
+    </para>
+


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releasenotes/13_trixie/release-notes.patch
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+<para>
+For the past 25 years, Debian has been a trusted distributor of software
+for the Life Sciences and Medicine, offering all the benefits that come
+with Debian as a distribution. This commitment has supported education,
+research, and service providers who rely on web-based software
+solutions. Particularly in the life sciences field, where data often
+exceeds transport capacity, Debian's contributions are of immense value.
+With the release of Debian Trixie, we are excited to introduce the
+shiny-server package, which enables the creation of scientific web
+applications using the statistical environment R.
+</para>
+<para>
+Much of our work goes unnoticed by users who simply see their familiar
+packages updated. However, behind the scenes, we continuously strive to
+improve the reliability and quality of our software. Through enhanced
+Continuous Integration support, the packages maintained by the Debian
+Med team undergo official auto-tests and additional tests developed by
+our team. By keeping software dependencies up to date, multiple packages
+can work seamlessly together, benefiting from the collective
+identification of issues and ensuring a smooth user experience. Any
+patches we create are shared back with the original developers, allowing
+Debian Med to remain closely aligned with the original sciences.
+</para>
+<para>
+Trixie ships with >1000 packages that are maintained by the Debian Med
+group that are kept compatible with the very latest versions of the
+software itself, but most work is invested into maintaining that often
+aging but established software to remain compatible with the latest
+versions of the shared libraries that often experiences incompatible
+changes to their API. This effort has become increasingly difficult over
+the past years as softwares have grown in complexity with many more
+dependencies, and also seeing many overlaps with other disciplines, such
+that the contributors to Debian Med also find themselves contributing to
+the Science and Electronic teams, or just help with basic Java or Python
+libraries that have not yet been packaged. But waiting for Debian to
+provide packages for all the latest softwares available today would slow
+your Science down. To the rescue may come the updated package of
+Singularity, i.e. a non-privileged means to install externally prepared
+software images, and we already know many such images to have Debian as
+their basis.
+</para>
+<para>
+The Debian Med team values feedback from users, especially regarding
+requests for packaging previously unpackaged free software or backports
+to earlier releases that are important to you.
+</para>
+<para>
+To install the packages maintained by the Debian Med team, simply
+install the metapackages named med-*, which are currently at version
+3.8.x for Debian Trixie. You can explore the full range of biological
+and medical software available in Debian by visiting the <ulink
+url="https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks">Debian Med tasks
+pages</ulink>.
+</para>
+



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