Jan,

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Jan Iven wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> at the "Spring" Hepix conference in Karlsruhe, we had complaints that SL
> wasn't "scientific" enough, i.e. was missing several packages.
> 
> I had contacted several developers to see whether they could make
> +maintain SL versions (RPM+SRPM). Examples where there was some
> willingness are OpenScientist and GSL, with ROOT and GEANT4 at least not
> against the idea. I also have some things I prepared myself (xmgrace or
> (eventually) a recompilable CERNLIB), which currently would go into the
> CERN repository but are useful outside.
> 
> The question is where to store these - I don't want such things to
> become "CERN"-additions, but to be available to the wider community. We
> could put them into the CERN "extras" repository and then mirror (I
> think Connie already takes things from there), but I think some specific
> section on scientificlinux.org would be more appropriate (including
> instructions for package authors).

Yes,  we could put them in the contrib area, I agree that "documentation" 
is needed for each of these.  Currently we just put in a small README but 
documentation on www.scientificlinux.org would be very useful.

We are also looking for a volunteer to be the "Scientific Applications" 
coordinator . 

> 
> ?
> Jan
> 

-Connie Sieh