[Debian-med-packaging] How can I help out on the Hackathon and Debian Med packaging?

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 04:00:31AM -0700, timsn_thtree_net wrote:
> I've not done any Debian builds, but have a lot of experience with RPM and
> building products and dependencies there, so I expect I can translate my
> packaging knowledge there.

Very cool.  We could use every helping hand!
 
> I've done a lot of cross platform work (Win, Mac, Linux, Embedded), know a
> fair number of languages and tools and led the build & platform team @ IBM.
> 
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/tjsnider/
> 
> Additionally I took Biology, Genetics to college level, and try to stay up
> to date.
> 
> I'm currently unemployed and would love to get more Bioinformatics related
> stuff under my belt. :)
> 
> Projects listed from https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/covid-19 that look
> interesting to me are discosnp, and possibly streamlit and nextstrain-ncov,
> but I don't know what priorities are.

The task is currently not (yet) properly curated but we are working on
it.  I admit streamlit seems to be a really valuable candidate.
Nextstrain-ncov needs auspice to be packaged first which means packaging
some extra JS libraries.

So if you want to tackle streamlit that would be cool.  Note that the
starting effort I did[1] is not more than just injecting the metadata
we need at the tasks page you quoted above.  I think it needs checking
first whether all preconditions are avialable.  Communication wise I
recommend subscribing the Debian Med mailing list

    https://lists.debian.org/debian-med

I also recommend reading the Debian Med policy

    https://med-team.pages.debian.net/policy/

which explains how to use our development platform salsa.debian.org.
While the sprint is running also our IRC channel #debian-med is settled
and you can ask there for more direct communication.

Also feel free to join our Jitsi meeting as announced on the hackathon Wiki

    https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/2020-covid19-hackathon/-/wikis/Covid-19-hackathon

> I'd appreciate suggestions as to how best to plug in and where to help.

Feel free to ping me about more information.

> I'm in Vancouver BC, Canada on PST.
> 
> I have a debian buster machine, as well as a variety of other machines here,
> what is the expected default target for the biohackathon work?

Buster is fine.  We are building package in a clean chroot environment
(as explained in Debian Med policy I linked above) so the actual Debian
(or derivative) does not matter much.

Thanks a lot for your attempt to help.  It is really appreciated.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/streamlit

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