[Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

[Tim Triche, Jr.]

> I guess my problem is that there is even an "if" at the beginning of that sentence.  That's not an attack on you, I know that the above reflects the current state of affairs, I'm simply saying that perhaps Bioconductor, as a project, can help/encourage people to do better.

Quite true.  Perhaps that could be emphasized as part of adding the redirect rules.  I am always delighted when people cite the version number of a package, as it shows that they care about the quality of their work, and the stability of its conclusions. 

People rarely do what they know is right; they do what is convenient, then repent.  (Bob Dylan pointed this out a while ago...)

Thus it is more likely that a person will do the right thing if it happens to be the most convenient thing IMHO. Anything to advance this strategy would be a step in the right direction 

Best,

--t


> ~G
>  
>> 
>> --t
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>> > On Mar 23, 2015, at 8:38 AM, Gabe Becker <becker.gabe at gene.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Fischer, Bernd <
>> > b.fischer at dkfz-heidelberg.de> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> During the production process of the paper we want to link to the
>> >> accompanying
>> >> BioC package that is in devel, but not yet in release. Before the first
>> >> release, the
>> >> link (e.g. www.bioconductor.org/<packagename>) should go to the devel
>> >> version
>> >> (maybe with an additional warning that it is only available in devel),
>> >> before the
>> >> first release of the package and should go to release afterwards.
>> >
>> > I understand the appeal of this, but decoupling publications from the
>> > actual, exact versions they discuss or use seems like a relatively large
>> > step backwards in terms of reproducibility. At the very least, I think
>> > there is some nuance here that warrants careful consideration before we
>> > adopt a single-silently-changing-link-per-package paradigm.
>> >
>> > ~G
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Bernd
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> On 23.03.2015, at 11:45, Sean Davis <seandavi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Just so we don't lose the thoughts that have come before, here is a link
>> >> to
>> >>> a similar proposal from last year.
>> >>>
>> >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2014-February/005292.html
>> >>>
>> >>> Sean
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Wolfgang Huber <whuber at embl.de> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I wonder whether it’d possible to have the website understand URLs like
>> >>>>       http://www.bioconductor.org/<pkgname>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> This could resolve to
>> >>>> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/<pkgname>.html
>> >>>> or
>> >>>> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/<pkgname>.html
>> >>>> depending on whether the package was yet released.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> This could be handy in papers or grants that mention packages.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Wolfgang
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> ----
>> >>>> Wolfgang Huber
>> >>>> Principal Investigator, EMBL Senior Scientist
>> >>>> Genome Biology Unit
>> >>>> European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
>> >>>> Heidelberg, Germany
>> >>>>
>> >>>> T +49-6221-3878823
>> >>>> wolfgang.huber at embl.de
>> >>>> http://www.huber.embl.de
>> >>>>
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>> > --
>> > Gabriel Becker, Ph.D
>> > Computational Biologist
>> > Genentech Research
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> Gabriel Becker, Ph.D
> Computational Biologist
> Genentech Research

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