Formula contribution path

[Dustin Kirkland]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Ahmed Kamal <kim0 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 04/14/2011 02:34 PM, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
>>
>> It sounds like a good idea for now, and this is pretty much what the
>> principia project that Clint bootstrapped does:
>>
>>     https://launchpad.net/principia
>>
>> Is that what you had in mind?
>
> Pretty much yeah, just not sure if principia is Clint's own ensemble repo,
> or if it's gonna become THE repo

The name "Principia" comes from Isaac Newton's seminal work,
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica [1] -- THE repository of
mathematic formulae for the ages.

Hence, Clint sees himself as Isaac Newton, and author of THE seminal
work on Ensemble formulae :-)  And he's done a great job at it, so
far.  He just needs the wig [2] :-)

Seriously, though, yeah, I think lp:principia is a great place to
track "upstream" ensemble formulae.  We should package them at some
point, and maintain suitable PPAs for various releases of Ubuntu.
People are welcome to branch them, contribute to them, etc.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophi%C3%A6_Naturalis_Principia_Mathematica
[2] http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Annodomini/THEME_15/IMAGES/J991825.jpg

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:-Dustin

Dustin Kirkland
Ubuntu Server, Core Developer
Canonical, LTD