[BioC] First business
Martin Maechler
Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Wed, 28 Nov 2001 10:28:01 +0100
>>>>> "Vincent" == Vincent J Carey, <stvjc@channing.harvard.edu> writes:
>> 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
Vincent> i take it that mailing to
Vincent> bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch constitutes even at
Vincent> this point a discussion mailing list
Vincent> an open question is how to structure the
Vincent> communications system. bioconductor-core is
Vincent> necessary for continuing threads like this one.
Vincent> bioconductor-help, bioconductor-devel also seem to
Vincent> make sense.
I would propose to change this (current group) to "bioconductor-core"
-- which I would propose to call "biocore" (the the other being
too long for my taste).
and make "bioconductor" a new (currently only) public list.
>> discuss yet -- which is a problem. We have had four
>> requests to join
Vincent> i think we have a fair amount to discuss as core,
Vincent> and those who are non-core may want to describe
Vincent> their concerns. probably not too early to start,
Vincent> 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
^^^^^^^^^
the word is really "packages"
A library is either a *.so, *.dll, *.a (etc) file
or one of the [lib.loc] directories where packages are located
>> (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.
Vincent> i am in favor of deployment soon. i will be
Vincent> working on getting test-functionality equivalent to
Vincent> Biobase. pointers on how to get there would be
Vincent> 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.
Vincent> i hope this is possible, otherwise we need to get
Vincent> sourceforge or anoncvs running locally. i would
Vincent> put some effort into that if i knew that ad hoc
Vincent> security considerations would not lay that effort
Vincent> 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
packages
Vincent> http://biowww.dfci.harvard.edu/~bioconductor/
Vincent> already has a little bit in this regard. we need
Vincent> to distinguish between internal core-level tracking
Vincent> that can be used for strategizing and evaluation
Vincent> and public tracking that is a public service and
Vincent> agenda publicity
Vincent> i am happy to put core-generated changes into the
Vincent> aforementioned web page on short notice.
thank you.
However, this should eventually move to www.bioconductor.org, right?
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Martin