[GSoC] OBF GSoC students weekly progress reports

[Lenna Peterson]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Lenna,
>
> Great - you've got a blog already you're also the first student to reply :)
>
> Blog comments could be nice, but personally in your shoes I'd
> direct any discussion to the biopython(-dev) mailing list. e.g.
>
> 1. Post weekly update blog, get blog post URL
> 2. Send email with summary, including blog post URL
> 3. Goto mailing list archive, get archived email URL
> 4. Update blog post to link to email (and thus any thread from it,
> at least for that month).
>
> A little cumbersome, but it would save you moving your blog?
>
> I'd actually be happier with most discussion on the biopython-dev
> list rather than blog comments, or even github (which will still be
> useful for things like code reviews).
>
> This may be different for the other projects - I know BioRuby
> uses IRC much more for example, but even there they've tried
> to post archives of important IRC discussions to their mailing
> list too.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Peter

Peter,

If I get ambitious, I could write a Python script to retrieve the
mailing list url and put it into my blog post!

To clarify - for biopython, should the update emails go out to both
the biopython and biopython-dev mailing lists, or just the latter?

Lenna