[Biojava-dev] New Developer

[Mark Schreiber]

Hi Jared -

It's great to have people checking and reporting these things. A CVS
account can be arranged if you make regular contributions however in
the meantime you can email a patch or fix to the dev list.

Because the open-bio lists block attachments (and even HTML email) to
prevent spamming the easiest way to submit a fix is as text in the
body of your email. One of the core developers can then check it in.

Additionally if you notice any problems with the documentation at
www.biojava.org please feel free to correct the wiki.

Finally if you notice bugs please report them to the bugzilla site
linked from the main page of biojava.org so that we can track them.
Even better if you can submit a possible fix at the same time so we
can make the change and create a test to prevent it from re-emerging
later.

Thanks for you help. Contributions are always appreciated.

- Mark

On 9/15/07, Jared Flatow <jflatow at northwestern.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am interested in getting involved with the BioJava community. I
> have just joined a Bioinformatics Core, and we use a lot of R/
> BioConductor right now, however we have some new projects that we
> would like to begin working in BioJava. I have checked out the source
> and compiled, however I noticed that the README was slightly out of
> sync with the project (the build targets listed are not the same as
> the build.xml). I made the updates to the README and would have liked
> to commit them, but as I am sure you are all aware, I do not have
> write access. I cannot yet say how much or little I would be able to
> contribute to the project, or even in what areas, however I think it
> could be beneficial to the community if I were permitted to make
> changes like this. I am sure synchronizing documentation is the last
> thing on your minds, and often it is hard to see that instructions
> might be unclear when you have been working on a project for a long
> time. I also think it could be a good opportunity to get to know the
> community and perhaps ease my way into becoming a more active
> developer. Please let me know what you think!
>
> Thanks!
> Jared
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