[Open-bio-l] Fwd: [Root-l] Source Code page on OBF wiki

[Chris Fields]

On Mar 6, 2011, at 2:57 PM, Dan Bolser wrote:

> Does open bio really house all the code from all these bio projects? I
> guess not...

Depends on what you mean by 'house', all of these were present in open-bio version control (CVS/SVN) at one point, but most repos have recently migrated away from the open-bio-centric version control.  EMBOSS and a few others are still using CVS I think.

> If not, I'd turn this page into a table of links to the equivalent
> pages for the other projects.

Agreed.

> My own feeling is that when it comes to documentation, less is more
> (or it should be as modular as possible). I hate it when GBrowse
> starts telling me precisely how to install Apache and MySQL, but
> apparently some people like it like that.

GBrowse users are fairly diverse (ranging from users well-versed with SQL/Apache/etc and other not so much:).  I would rather have too much documentation, but have it be well-organized to the point where more experienced users can bypass certain instructions.

chris

> On 5 March 2011 22:11, Jason Stajich <jason.stajich at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is probably also a message that would be helpful to generally get
>> members from the various projects involved.
>> 
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> From:   Hilmar Lapp <hlapp at drycafe.net>
>> Subject:        [Root-l] Source Code page on OBF wiki
>> Date:   Sat, 5 Mar 2011 13:59:49 -0500
>> To:     Root-l <root-l at open-bio.org>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> This page seems highly outdated: http://open-bio.org/wiki/SourceCode
>> 
>> I could take a stab at correcting some of the stuff, but don't even
>> have the complete picture necessary to fix it, so if someone who does
>> would do so that'd be great help. I'm also wondering to what extent we
>> should trim down the information here and link to the individual
>> project wikis instead.
>> 
>> I got here from the BioSQL wiki which links there for instructions on
>> obtaining source code through anonymous svn access. That doesn't apply
>> anymore, but there also is no section on anonymously obtaining code
>> through git. One question I'm asking myself is whether we even need to
>> document that, given that Github explains it already.
>> 
>> Anyone any thoughts on what we should focus on in this page?
>> 
>>        -hilmar
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