[Bioperl-l] bioperl development

[Jason Stajich]

On Jan 26, 2005, at 11:54 AM, Nathan Haigh wrote:

> Sorry, I wasn't suggesting any sort of move, I was thinking more of 
> just implementing similar tools that would allow developers to
> better organise and delegate tasks to other developers/users. This 
> way, people who would like to help could view a list of tasks
> that they would like to take part in.
>
Sure - even if we did a similar thing to the Mozilla site with their 
first bugs page http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/hacking/first-bugs/ & 
http://www.mozilla.org/developer/  that would be good.  If we can deal 
with a content management system which made updating these pages really 
easy then it will be actually be used (and therefore useful).

If we could get content-management and RSS feeds to be easy to update 
and edit that might make sense.  If we moved a majority of the web site 
over to something like moveable-type.  This is what in fact the 
biopython.org site is now done with and how the news.open-bio.org site 
is run.

We used to have a wikiweb setup for bioperl but it was really buggy and 
just didn't get used that much.  A new wiki would be nice I expect.  
The hard part is always have TOO many places for documentation and 
keeping it all organized.  We already have a hard enough time keeping 
the modules organized and documented.

> I just thought that the example of sourceforge towards the development 
> of open-source software by organising and coordinating effort
> from project admin/developers/users was a good one, and that certain 
> aspects could be useful for coordinating efforts for bioperl.
>

These are good thoughts - as always it take some energy and time to put 
into place a new system.  We really welcome anyone trying to make this 
a better system.  At some level it is hard for the core developers to 
be project managers, developers, and system administrators.  So any 
help is really much appreciated.

> Nathan
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andreas Kahari [mailto:ak at ebi.ac.uk]
>> Sent: 26 January 2005 16:33
>> To: Nathan Haigh
>> Cc: 'Bioperl'
>> Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] bioperl development
>>
>> Looking at the bioperl.org site I can see references to CVS,
>> Bugzilla, mailing lists, FAQ & HOWTOs and a lot of other things.
>> Do you think a move into sourceforge, away from the open-bio
>> foundation resources (which also hosts biopython and biojava
>> etc.), would be worth it and be beneficial to the development of
>> the project?
>>
>> Sorry, but I don't think so.
>>
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 03:51:43PM -0000, Nathan Haigh wrote:
>>> I was wondering who plans the development of bioperl and how is this 
>>> organised?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The reason I ask, is that I've recently opened a project at 
>>> sourceforge.net and was surprised by the amount of tools that are
>>> available for organising project development. For example you are 
>>> able to organise project tasks, has CVS support, mailing
> lists,
>>> discussion forum (public and private), tracker system for bugs, 
>>> support requests, patches and feature requests and web space. It
>>> seems to me that some of these features could benefit bioperl. I'm 
>>> not sure about the setup of bioperl servers and websites, but
>>> would it be possible to implement some of these development tools 
>>> for bioperl?
>>
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>> Andreas Kähäri
>> EMBL-EBI/ensembl
>>
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