[BioRuby] Developing a VISION

[Pjotr Prins]

Lots of new projects listed by some fstrozzi

;j

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 06:43:23PM +0100, Francesco Strozzi wrote:
> Seems very nice and has a direct integration with Github
> 
> +1
> 
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 17:41, Raoul Bonnal <bonnal at ingm.org> wrote:
> 
> > Found a candidate https://gemnasium.com/
> >
> >
> > On 25/02/12 14.49, "Raoul Bonnal" <bonnal at ingm.org> wrote:
> >
> > >     Something we need and  I need to figure out how to do is, check the
> > > plugins¹ interdependencies/dependencies and notify to the author, ml or
> > the
> > > web site the need to update them; maybe would be useful to test the
> > plugin
> > > with upgraded dependencies and let that know to the developers. This
> > would
> > > be useful because gems are updated frequently and if the developer
> > maintains
> > > a lot of plugins it¹s a mess follow everything ( at least for me).
> > >
> > > PS: If you need to mirror the test bots I can see if there are machines
> > > available here, do they require a lot of resources ?
> > >
> > >
> > > On 25/02/12 10.35, "Peter Cock" <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Saturday, February 25, 2012, Raoul Bonnal  wrote:
> > >>> +1
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On 25/02/12 09.42, "Pjotr Prins" <pjotr.public14 at thebird.nl<javascript:;> >
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>>> ## Vision statement: BioRuby is agile
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> The Ruby community is always working on agile processes. BioRuby can
> > >>>>> benefit from behaviour driven development (BDD), specifications,
> > >>>>> doctests and integration and unit testing.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Realisation:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> In addition to unit testing we should concentrate on introducing
> > >>>>> Rspec, Cucumber, rubydoctests across the board. Also we should use
> > the
> > >>>>> continuous integration testing by services such as travis-ci (I have
> > a
> > >>>>> writeup on the latter soon) and perhaps use the OBF test services for
> > >>>>> stable plugins.
> > >>
> > >> Without an extensive testing process like this, I struggle to see
> > >> how a dynamic range of plugins from different authors can keep
> > >> interoperability - so this sounds good. As we've discussed, the
> > >> buildbot system as we're using it on the OBF testing service is
> > >> more suited to testing one code base under a single repository.
> > >>
> > >> So another +1 for looking at automated testing of all the biogem
> > >> packages. It will be a lot of work though... But should pay off :)
> > >>
> > >> Peter
> > >>
> > >
> > >
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> Francesco
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