Re: Introducing: Debian Science tools

On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, Manuel Prinz wrote:

> I just setup a Git repository in our group namespace named
> "debian-science-tools". It's supposed to be a collection of tools that
> will aid when working on Debian Science, and everyone is very welcome to
> contribute to it. It's both for users and developers, enabling users to
> contribute more easily to Debian Science -- if they like to do so.

Manuel, many thanks for this effort which is really welcome.  But
IMHO this rather belongs to general Debian Pure Blends (formerly
known as Custom Debian Distribution) stuff and should rather go
to the cdd repository.  I is a known fact that every project develops
nice tools and my goal is to find synergies to make these available
for everybody.  This does not mean that I want to stop you from
continuing the good work but please use a variable for debian-science
at every piece of your code and try to use configuration files to
enable a generalisation easily.

> At the moment, it just contains one tool, debsci-wnpp, which calls
> "reportbug wnpp" and also adds templates for user-tagging and CC'ing the
> maintainers list. Using this, it is possible to directly set usertags in
> the template, so this does not have to be done manually after an ITP.
> Also, the mailing list is always informed about new ITPs/RFPs.

I currently have no time to look into this code (regard me on pseudo-vacation)
but I would strongly vote to call this script

      blend-wnpp science

The science argument should make the script reading a configuration