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Second Debian Med COVID-19 hackathon (June 15-21, 2020)

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  • Second Debian Med COVID-19 hackathon (June 15-21, 2020)
    Dear Debian Community,
    
    Debian Med joined the virtual (online) [COVID-19 Biohackathon] from
    April 5-11 2020.  We considered the outcome a great success in terms of
    the approached tasks, the new members we gained and the support of
    Debian infrastructure teams (namely the ftpmaster team).
    
    COVID-19 is not over and the Debian Med team wants to do another week of
    hackathon to continue with this great success.  We want to do this from
    June 15th to June 21th 2020.
    
    A [recently shared pre-publication draft paper] highlights which
    software tools are considered useful "to Accelerate SARS-CoV-2 and
    Coronavirus Research".  Many of these tools would benefit from being
    packaged in Debian and all the advantages that Debian brings for both
    users and upstream alike.
    
    As in the first sprint most tasks do not require any knowledge of
    biology or medicine, and all types of contributions are welcome: bug
    triage, testing, documentation, CI, translations, packaging, and code
    contributions.
    
    1. [Debian related bugs in COVID-19 related packages]
    
    2. [COVID-19 related software that is awaiting packaging]
       please respond to the RFP with your intent so we don't duplicate work
    
    3. You can also contribute directly to the upstream packages, linked
       from the [Debian Med COVID-19 task page].  Note: many biomedical
       software packages are quite resource limited, even compared to a
       typical FOSS project. Please be kind to the upstream author/maintainers
       and realize that they may have limited resources to review your
       contribution. Triaging open issues and opening pull requests to fix
       problems is likely to be more useful than nitpicking their coding
       style.
    
    4. Architectures/porting: Please focus on amd64, as it is the primary
       architecture for biomedical software. A secondary tier would be arm64 /
       ppc64el / s390x (but beware the endian-related issues on s390x). From a
       free/open hardware perspective it would be great to see more riscv64
       support, but that is not a priority right now
    
    5. Python developers: The Debian Med team is also trying to [improve the
       availability ofautomated biomedical pipelines/workflows]  using the
       Common Workflow Language open standard. The reference implementation of
       CWL is written in Python and there are many [open issues ready for work
       that don't require any biomedical background].
    
    6. It is very easy to contribute to Debian Med team. We have a lowNMU
       policy for all our packages. Merge requests on Salsa are usually
       processed quickly (but please ping some of the latest Uploaders of the
       package to make sure it will be noticed). Even better if you ask for
       membership to the team and push directly to the salsa repository.
    
    7. The [debian-med-team-policy] should answer all questions how to contribute.
    
    8. There is a [work-needed wiki] that will help keep track of who is
       working on which projects.
    
    9. There is also a [NEW requests wiki] where we can request expedited
       NEW processing to support this effort.  In the last sprint ftpmaster
       was picking from here with high priority.  Thanks again for this.
    
    During the hackathon we will coordinate ourselves via the the Salsa
    coordination page, Debian Med mailing list and IRC:
    
    *  https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/2020-covid19-...
    *  https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/
    *  https://wiki.debian.org/IRC
    *  irc://irc.debian.org/debian-med
    *  https://jitsi.debian.social/DebianMedCovid19 every day at 15:00 UTC
    
    Thanks in advance for considering to join our sprint.
    
    Sincerely
    
        Andreas Tille on behalf of the Debian Med team.
    
  • Second Debian Med COVID-19 hackathon

    The Debian Med team joined a COVID-19 Biohackathon last April and is planing on doing it again on June 15-21.

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