Scientific Spin marked for retirement

[Ankur Sinha]

Hello,

The Scientific spin is marked for removal (please see Ben's e-mail
below).  What should we do here?

- is it needed?
- if it is, do we have the resources to keep it going?

At the moment, at least from a NeuroFedora perspective, the Scientific
spin/image isn't a requirement. It's quite general purpose, so we have
our own spin/lab with specialised software that also includes a bunch of
the Scientific packages to help with analysis.

----- Forwarded message from Ben Cotton  -----
> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:23:14 -0500
> From: Ben Cotton 
> To: [e-mail], [e-mail]
> CC: [e-mail]
> Subject: [Fedora-spins] Spins marked for retirement
>
> In keeping with FESCo's approval[1] of a keepalive requirement, the
> following Spins and Labs are marked for retirement in Fedora 32 unless
> the maintainer replies to the keepalive request or a new maintainer
> steps up.
> Jam Audio[2] (keepalive[3])
> Scientific[4] (keepalive[5])
>
> [1] https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1972
> [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_jam
> [3] https://pagure.io/fedora-project-schedule/issue/159
> [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scientific_Spin
> [5] https://pagure.io/fedora-project-schedule/issue/168
>
> -- 
> Ben Cotton
> He / Him / His
> Fedora Program Manager
> Red Hat
> TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis
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[Benson Muite]

On Mon, Feb 3, 2020, at 6:03 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The Scientific spin is marked for removal (please see Ben's e-mail
> below). What should we do here?
> is it needed?
> if it is, do we have the resources to keep it going?
>
> At the moment, at least from a NeuroFedora perspective, the Scientific
> spin/image isn't a requirement. It's quite general purpose, so we have
> our own spin/lab with specialised software that also includes a bunch of
> the Scientific packages to help with analysis.

Not clear if want to consolidate with Robotics to have a Makers, Science and Engineering spin. The SIG page already has a large number of packages [1],[2] but not sure all are used enough to warrant inclusion. In principle I can take this up as am already using KDE, but am behind on my commitments to Fedora project so would not be able to make much contributions until Fedora 33. It might be worth reaching out to maker labs/hacker spaces and researchers.

[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scientific_Spin
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/SciTech/PackageList
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GIS
> ----- Forwarded message from Ben Cotton  -----
> > Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:23:14 -0500
> > From: Ben Cotton 
> > To: [e-mail], [e-mail]
> > CC: [e-mail]
> > Subject: [Fedora-spins] Spins marked for retirement
> >
> > In keeping with FESCo's approval[1] of a keepalive requirement, the
> > following Spins and Labs are marked for retirement in Fedora 32 unless
> > the maintainer replies to the keepalive request or a new maintainer
> > steps up.
> > Jam Audio[2] (keepalive[3])
> > Scientific[4] (keepalive[5])
> >
> > [1] https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1972
> > [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_jam
> > [3] https://pagure.io/fedora-project-schedule/issue/159
> > [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scientific_Spin
> > [5] https://pagure.io/fedora-project-schedule/issue/168
> >
> > -- 
> > Ben Cotton
> > He / Him / His
> > Fedora Program Manager
> > Red Hat
> > TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis
> > _______________________________________________
> > spins mailing list -- [e-mail]
> > To unsubscribe send an email to [e-mail]
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>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Regards,
> Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" (He / Him / His) | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
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