[Biopython-dev] New contributor

[Andrea Rizzi]

Thank you for your welcome Michiel!

I will looking for a good project to work on in the next few days and I
will let you know soon. Meanwhile I've started to read some code to become
familiar with the modules and I bumped into few small bugs concerning the
Seq objects, in particular I found:

1) a duplicated test method name (one test in test_Seq_objs.py wasn't
performed);
2) an error in Alphabet._case_less().

I've also expanded a little bit the documentation and I've substituted
tostring() method with the suggested str() method in a function of
MutableSeq. The branch is located here

https://github.com/andrrizzi/biopython/tree/seq-branch

I'm not sure if it is more comfortable for you to merge this kind of
commits from a git branch or it is more advisable to open a ticket and
create a patch. Anyway if you think this small commits may be useful, feel
free to use them.

Best,
Andrea


2013/3/13 Michiel de Hoon <mjldehoon at yahoo.com>

> Hi Andrea,
>
> Welcome to Biopython!
> It's great that you want to contribute.
> Writing & finishing some unit tests sounds like a good idea, and of course
> bug fixing is always welcome.
> Other options are to look at orphan modules in Biopython (modules without
> active maintainers, without documentation, or without unit tests).
> Once you decide what specifically you want to work on, it's good to let us
> know on the mailing list, to see if anybody else is working on the same.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Best,
> -Michiel.
>
>
>
> --- On Sat, 3/2/13, Andrea Rizzi <88whacko at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Andrea Rizzi <88whacko at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [Biopython-dev] New contributor
> > To: biopython-dev at biopython.org
> > Date: Saturday, March 2, 2013, 11:49 AM
> > Hello!
> > My name is Andrea Rizzi and I'm a master's student in
> > computer science and
> > computational biology. I would be glad to help you
> > developing biopython.
> > I've used the library quite extensively but I'm mostly
> > familiar with
> > handling sequences, MSAs and PDB files.
> >
> > I've read through the small contributing guide on the wiki
> > and on the
> > tutorial and I thought I could start with something
> > relatively
> > straightforward like writing/completing some unit tests (if
> > I understood
> > correctly there's a fairly strong need for them). I've good
> > knowledge of
> > both git and unittest. Anyway any task is actually fine to
> > me :) .
> >
> > If you agree I'll try to look for a module that needs some
> > more testing (or
> > maybe you have one to suggest me), otherwise I could just go
> > to the bug
> > tracker and try to help out fixing some bugs.
> >
> > --
> > -- Andrea
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> >
>



-- 
-- Andrea