[Biopython-dev] Interested in contributing to Biopython

[Peter Cock]

That sounds great, thanks!

Peter

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:16 AM, Mahesh Gudapakkam
<mahesh.gudapakkam at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Peter
>
> Thanks so much for welcoming me and for taking the time to guide me on
> things I can start helping with.
>
> Indeed, there are many tasks I can help with without working on the code
> itself - it's also a fabulous (gentle) way to get oriented with the various
> repositories.
>
> I'll get started and sure to reach out to you/group whenever I have
> questions.
>
> The first (possibly few) commits will be likely trivial - intentionally so,
> just so that I get familiar with the workflow of making/committing a change
> and seeing it through to deployment. Hoping it's not seen annoying or
> inconvenient to folks involved.
>
> Warm Regards
> Mahesh
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Mahesh,
>>
>> Saying hello on this mailing list is very appropriate. Welcome!
>>
>> Right now we've been busy with rebuilding the website using
>> GitHub pages - you've found the repository for that - have a
>> look at the issue tracker or just looking glitches in the website
>> would  be a good way to immediately help out.
>>
>> (If this side of things happens to particularly interest you,
>> then the websites for BioSQL, BioJava, and BioPerl have
>> been though a similar migration - I'm currently doing BioDAS
>> and there are a couple more to look at after that).
>>
>> On the testing side, Tiago has been looking at making it easier
>> for us to make sure we're testing all our code with "soft" or
>> optional dependencies. We're using TravisCI but haven't yet
>> got that working under Mac OS X too - nor have we setup a
>> similar system for Windows testing but such things exist.
>>
>> We do have a buildbot setup as well, testing.open-bio.org,
>> but do need another volunteer with a Windows machine...
>>
>> API documentation wise, we're still using epydoc to build
>> the API doc webpages from our docstrings, see:
>>
>> http://biopython.org/wiki/Building_a_release
>>
>> All our docstrings *should* now be valid restructured text.
>> A next step would be to replac epydoc (and its ugly HTML
>> output) with something like Sphinx, pandoc, or the hosted
>> service readthedocs.org
>>
>> Rather than scaring you (and anyone else reading this), I'm
>> trying to say there's lots of things that can be worked on
>> even without working directly on the code itself - so I hope
>> there's something that looks interesting that you'll try.
>>
>> And please do ask questions,
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Mahesh Gudapakkam
>> <mahesh.gudapakkam at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I have a feeling this may not be the right way to offer that I'd like to
>> > help with contributing to Biopython but I am doing so per this text on
>> > your
>> > website. (http://biopython.org/DIST/docs/tutorial/Tutorial.html#htoc319
>> > -
>> >  The best place to express an interest is on the Biopython mailing lists
>> > –
>> > just let us know you are interested in coding and what kind of stuff you
>> > want to work on.)
>> >
>> > I am Web developer and UI/UX designer who is very interested in
>> > Bioinformatics. Ideally I'd like to contribute to modules within
>> > Biopython
>> > but I know that will take time and domain expertise. I will get there.
>> >
>> > However, I'd like to begin immediately by offering to help with the
>> > website,
>> > documentation and unit tests.  At present, I am reviewing both Chapter
>> > 22
>> > Where to go from here – contributing to Biopython as well as your github
>> > repo for your website https://github.com/biopython/biopython.github.io.
>> >
>> > Please let me know if this is the right way to get involved with this
>> > effort. My apologies if I did this the wrong way.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Mahesh Gudapakkam
>> >
>> >
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