[Bioperl-l] Interested in being involved

[Peter Cline]

Great!  I will take a look at the CVS repository and begin to formulate an 
understanding of what needs to be done sometime this week.  I assume I'll 
have questions at that time and will bring them to you.



At 08:31 AM 5/9/01 -0500, chris dagdigian wrote:


>Peter-
>
>Welcome!
>
>One project that may be easy for you to hit the ground running on is
>something that Jason S. and I have been kicking around. We have a pretty
>powerfull OpenBSD box running our anon-cvs service now (cvs.bioperl.org).
>
>It may be an ideal system to start building up our ability to perform
>automated nightly builds on our various code repositories.
>
>The system would be a set of cron-invoked scripts that do the following:
>
>o Check out the latest copy of bioperl-live from CVS
>o go 'make Makefile.PL' and 'make test'
>o parse the resulting test harness output and send a summary email to
>bioperl-guts-l
>
>If it works and proves useful I'm sure the biopython and biojava folks
>would be interested in building similar systems.
>
>This may be something that you can start prototyping at home; let me know
>if you need account access on the systems.
>
>-Chris
>
>
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>
>On Tue, 8 May 2001, Peter Cline wrote:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > I am interested in becoming involved in the bio perl project.  While I am
> > not currently working in the field of biology, I am employed as a perl
> > coder, and have a strong interest in biology as well.  During my years as
> > an undergraduate I took a minor in earth and environmental sciences, which
> > included courses in Ecology, Geology, and Biology.  I hope to someday be
> > involved in work that is more closely related to these fields than my
> > present employment.  In the meantime, I relish the idea of doing some work
> > in perl that is tied in with the biological sciences.  I don't have 
> tons of
> > time, for my myriad interests find me studying Slavic Languages with a
> > private tutor twice a week and teaching a class in Macromedia Director one
> > evening a week.  However, I am anxious to help out in any way possible.
> >
> > I am confident Perl coder and eager to learn more.  I would also be
> > interested in producing documentation or tackling other tasks that need to
> > be done (even menial ones).
> >
> > Thanks
> > Peter Cline
> > Inet Developer
> > New York Times Digital
> >
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Peter Cline
Inet Developer
New York Times Digital