[Debichem-devel] Dynamics PyMOL Plugin

[Michael Banck]

Hi Tomasz,

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 02:06:53PM +0200, Tomasz Makarewicz wrote:
> My name is Tomasz Makarewicz and I am working at University of Gdańsk. We
> manage to publish article about our open source plugin for PyMOL, which
> allows to perform Molecular Dynamics Simulation using GROMACS:
> http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ci400071x

I saw that paper a while ago and bookmarked it, but did not have the
time to read it yet.  Anyway, sounds very interesting!

> the source code of the plugin can be obtained from:
> https://github.com/tomaszmakarewicz/Dynamics
> Ubuntu repository:
> https://launchpad.net/~tomaszm/+archive/dynamics/+packages
> Code is licensed under GPL-3.
> I would like to ask you to include that plugin into Debian repositories.
> If you require any further knowledge or my assistance please let me know.

As you made Ubuntu packages, would you be interested in maintaining the
plugin in Debian (and thus by proxy for Ubuntu) with us?

We could review your packaging and possibly suggest some changes.  We
use either svn or git for keeping the packaging in a SCM.  You don't
need to be a Debian member to maintain it - just get an Alioth
(http://alioth.debian.org) account and we can give you access to svn or
git.  Somebody of us will upload the packages then.

If you are not interested, we can maintain it ourselves, of course,
possibly with your input.

In any case, it might make sense to decide on a naming scheme for PyMOL
plugins - you chose "dynamics-pymol-plugin" as package name, but I think
"pymol-plugin-foo" is maybe the better choice, any other opinions?

I have to say that I am on vacation next week and quite busy right now,
so I might not get around to review your package and/or package Dynamics myself in May.


Best regards,

Michael