Project:Science/Overlay

WORK IN PROGRESS

The Gentoo Science overlay holds many ebuilds for scientific and High Performance Clustering applications, managed by Science Project. It serves several purposes:
 * a sandbox for the main tree scientific packages
 * a repository of not widely used scientific software
 * allows contributions of non developers via either full access to the overlay or GitHub pull requests

Install the overlay
The Science overlay has two URLs, on Gentoo infrastructure and Github. They are synchronized: Gentoo: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/sci.git Github: https://github.com/gentoo-science/sci

The overlay and can be installed the usual way (see overlay documentation)

Science Overlay Projects
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 * alternatives-2 howto
 * empi howto
 * blurb about other sage-on-gentoo, octave, R generated ebuild overlays

Contribute
We strongly encourage contributions rather than bugs for the Science overlay. You can contribute via github, or send an email to sci@gentoo.org asking for commit access to the Gentoo one, sending reference to some contribution.

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 * blurb about minimum QA on ebuilds: EAPI, repoman
 * coding/maintainer/metadata style

Report issues
If you really need to report a bug, report bugs concerning packages in the overlay at: GitHub issues tracker.

If you insist on reporting bugs through the traditional Gentoo way, do it with Gentoo Bugzilla. The field "Summary" of the bug should be. However do not expect that non-developer contributed ebuilds will answer your bugs.