[Bioc-devel] Package Home Pages

[Patrick Aboyoun]

Henrik,
I provided links to the existing Bioconductor changelog blosxom blog at 
the University of Michigan. With the Bioconductor manifest growing at 
such a rapid pace, my guess is that the newer packages haven't yet made 
the blog.


Patrick



Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> Thanks. Looks good.
>
> FYI, when I go to the package specifics for aroma.light
> [http://fgc.lsi.umich.edu/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/aroma.light/] there is a
> somewhat poetic message delivered in red:
>
> "Error: I'm afraid this is the first I've heard of a "light" flavoured
> Blosxom. Try dropping the "/+light" bit from the end of the URL."
>
> /Henrik
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Patrick Aboyoun <paboyoun at fhcrc.org> wrote:
>   
>> I just modified the build system to add "Bioconductor Changelog" links to
>> the "Multiple platform build/check report" pages. To see an example of these
>> links go to
>>
>> http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/2.2/bioc-LATEST/
>>
>> and look for the Bioconductor Changelog links. Similar links will be added
>> to the BioC 2.3 report when it is created later tonight.
>>
>> Given that the changelog is geared towards developers, I did not include a
>> link in the package home pages that Wolfgang referred to because it could
>> fall into the category of too much information for a general user of the
>> package. If the Bioconductor development community believes we should
>> include a link on the package home pages as well, I will add them. It
>> doesn't take much effort to change the infrastructure.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Patrick
>>
>>
>>
>> Patrick Aboyoun wrote:
>>     
>>> Sean and Wolfgang,
>>> I think these two enhancements to the bioconductor.org website would be
>>> very useful and not too much work to implement. I'll add them on the website
>>> task list and send out a message to this group when they are implemented. If
>>> there are any other related ideas, keep them coming. It is easier to
>>> implement them all at once, rather than one at a time.
>>>
>>>
>>> Patrick
>>>
>>>
>>> Sean Davis wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Wolfgang Huber <huber at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I like the package overview pages, such as
>>>>> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/cellHTS2.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Would it be possible that they also link to the output of, for example:
>>>>>
>>>>> svn log --username readonly --password readonly \
>>>>> https://hedgehog.fhcrc.org/bioconductor/trunk/madman/Rpacks/gcrma
>>>>>
>>>>> which any of our users can run (but I assume most wouldn't know how to)?
>>>>>
>>>>> This additional service to our users may also encourage pkg developers
>>>>> to be more precise in their svn log entries :)
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Hi, Wolfgang.  I agree this would be a simple and useful addition for
>>>> the devel archives.  Since we already have the bioconductor change log
>>>> in place, it would be trivial to change the HTML on the devel pages to
>>>> include a link like:
>>>>
>>>> http://fgc.lsi.umich.edu/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/cellHTS2
>>>>
>>>> Sean
>>>>
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