Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:35:07 +0200 From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: chat95@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp Subject: Further announcement: List for biology ports Message-ID: <20000928163507.A23031@fling.sanbi.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <200009191557.IAA76039@freefall.freebsd.org>; from ade@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:57:28AM -0700 References: <200009191557.IAA76039@freefall.freebsd.org>
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ade@FreeBSD.org on 2000-09-19 (Tue) at 08:57:28 -0700: > > Synopsis: New port: biology/gaussian98 > > State-Changed-From-To: analyzed->closed > State-Changed-By: ade > State-Changed-When: Tue Sep 19 08:56:17 PDT 2000 > State-Changed-Why: > Timeout (3 months) in analyzed. As it stands, the port is broken > in so many ways, we'd have to almost completely re-do it in > order to get it to work. When you have something that works > and passes portlint, please submit a new PR. Thanks. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=19006 In the light of occurrences like the above, this may be as good a time as any... Some two months ago a few of us formed a FreeBSD-bio mailing list, with the initial purpose (as I expressed it at the time): 1) To create a staging area wherein porters (and putative porters) of bio tools for FreeBSD can co-operate in order to divide the load, help each other out, test each other's ports, etc. 2) To create a singe point of contact for FreeBSD users in the biosciences. To this I can now add an additional objective: 3) To promote FreeBSD as the operating system of choice for users in the biosciences and computational biosciences. At the time I announced the formation of the list to certain FreeBSD lists, but not to -ports. I might as well do that now. The FreeBSD-bio list has had some modest success, and some ports are already being submitted. Hopefully there will be many more soon. I think we have been very successful at objective (1) - the FreeBSD-bio list is a less, err... harsh environment than -ports, since most of the members are biologists first and unix geeks second. We've become quite good at rendering some mutual assistance in order to get ports out the door. I would encourage people like the submitter of the original PR quoted above to join us. (Which is not to say it's a newbies-only list: In fact, some people with more in-depth knowledge of FreeBSD than we have would be very welcome indeed! :-) FreeBSD-bio is a low volume list and does therefore not (yet!) qualify to be hosted by FreeBSD.org. To subscribe to FreeBSD-bio, either: 1) Go to http://www.plig.net/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bio and subscribe via the web front-end. 2) Send a message to freebsd-bio-request@freebsd.net, with the following in the body of the message: subscribe [address=<address>] -- Johann To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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