[Bioc-devel] request for more notices about build issues

[Sean Davis]

Is this a use case for a "graphical" build report that displays the build
status on a graph/DAG?

http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/vignettes/pkgDepTools/inst/doc/pkgDepTools.pdf

pkgDepTools, combined with a computable build report (a downloadable
version of the current build report), might allow a graphical (in both node
and edge as well as visual) build report.  I could envision a color scheme
applied to a figure like the last figure in the PDF above.  A little
functionality could be built to find the "root" of a build problem for any
specific package (to the extent that pkgDepTools can capture the
dependencies).

This is not a well-thought-out answer, so take it with a grain of salt.

Sean


On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Michael Love <michaelisaiahlove at gmail.com>
wrote:

> dear core Bioc-ers,
>
> It would be nice to have more devel mailing list notices about large
> scale build issues, just to keep developers in the loop. (e.g. I often
> get a number of emails when GenomicRanges is down, asking why I'm
> breaking someone's downstream package).
>
> Or if you don't want to "push" these out to the list, to have a URL
> where core team could post information about what's going on in devel
> and rough timelines about upcoming changes. Then developers can "pull"
> this information when they need to.
>
> thanks for all your work! There are lots of exciting things in the
> next release, and I know that's it's a lot of work to get to the
> finish.
>
> best,
>
> Mike
>
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