[BioC] First business
Vincent J. Carey, Jr.
stvjc@channing.harvard.edu
Tue, 27 Nov 2001 11:01:58 -0500 (EST)
>
> My proposal is to set up a discussion mailing list (that we all
> subscribe to) for Bioconductor. I don't think that we have anything to
i take it that mailing to bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch
constitutes even at this point a discussion mailing list
an open question is how to structure the communications system.
bioconductor-core is necessary for continuing threads like this
one. bioconductor-help, bioconductor-devel also seem to make sense.
> discuss yet -- which is a problem. We have had four requests to join
i think we have a fair amount to discuss as core, and those
who are non-core may want to describe their concerns. probably
not too early to start, but a bit too early to publicize very widely
> all with .de suffixes but there will be more.
> Any other ideas?
>
> Next, libraries. I am hoping to have our new programmer (starting in
> Jan) learn how to test libraries and to handle all submissions (by
> doing some simple testing and then add them to a site like CRAN).
> Do we want to develop and start to populate the site now with the
> proviso that we will put in more stringent tests later?
> The reason for this is to gain some momentum and hopefully to find
> some more people who might be willing to do some of the organizational
> work that will be needed.
i am in favor of deployment soon. i will be working on getting
test-functionality equivalent to Biobase. pointers on how to get
there would be worth writing down.
>
> Fritz/Kurt: is it feasible to set up a web page for bioconductor off
> of CRAN using mainly the existing structure and to populate it with
> unvetted software. I expect that the new programmer will be able to
> take this over in late January. So it would be the initial setup and
> population that would be required.
i hope this is possible, otherwise we need to get sourceforge
or anoncvs running locally. i would put some effort into that
if i knew that ad hoc security considerations would not lay that effort
to waste at some arbitrary future time
>
> Organization:
> - we need someone (volunteers please take a giant step forward) to
> organize some mechanism for keeping track of what we are doing and
> what other people are doing regarding building libraries.
http://biowww.dfci.harvard.edu/~bioconductor/ already has a little
bit in this regard. we need to distinguish between internal
core-level tracking that can be used for strategizing and
evaluation and public tracking that is a public service and
agenda publicity
i am happy to put core-generated changes into the aforementioned
web page on short notice.
> - it would be nice to have some place where one can see what sorts
> of projects are being done so that collaboration etc can go on.
> - perhaps a Wiki type interface?
this depends upon security. i will install zope if i can get
a publicly accessible port 8080. but perhaps that is overkill
for a wiki if that is all we really want.
robert's email is generated from bioconductor-admin, but i made
the reply to bioconductor to reach the core. please advise
if changes to my mailing strategy are desired.
vince