[Biodevelopers] Re: Proposal for creation of algorithm repository

[J.W. Bizzaro]

Anyone wishing to help with the repository project may want to help with 
the modification of the SourceForge-based groupware here at 
Bioinformatics.Org.  The SF system is of course very much tuned to 
software development projects, managing such things as module releases, 
CVS, bug tracking, etc.  It doesn't make much sense to use these all of 
these resources for projects not related to software development: 
education, research, and repositing materials and methods.

The first things to do to address this problem (how to manage things 
other than software development) is to modularize the SF groupware 
somewhat.  The simplest way to do that is to allow group administrators 
to turn on and off the different resources, according to what they need 
and don't need.  This can be a implemented by having a number of check 
buttons on the admin page and storing in the database whether a project 
uses a resource or not.  If the admin checks a button, that resource 
will be available to others working in the group and be visible to the 
visitors of the website.  For a group that is repositing an algorithm, 
as an example, the only resource to "turn on" may be Wiki.

The SourceForge-based groupware at Bioinformatics.Org is based on PHP 
and MySQL (later versions of SF use DB2 and are commercial).  In 
addition to the modification mentioned above, we do need to add a Wiki 
system (preferably PHP-based).  Anyone with the interest and necessary 
skills to help with this, please contact me (jeff at bioinformatics.org). 
*PLEASE*, contact me *ONLY* if you can commit the time required to see 
this through.  This would mean hours of (largely independent) work on 
our development server.

BTW, the modification of our SF system to create repositories is 
something we've been planning on for a while.  We've been hoping to use 
it for a package repository (BioPkg) as well as repositories for open 
access publications and educational material.  So, we might as well use 
it for algorithms too.

Cheers.
Jeff

Malay Kumar Basu wrote:
> Hi Bruce:
> 
> Excellent! You are welcome. Do participate in the discussion going on in
> Biodeveloper mailing list on Bioinformatics.org. Put your suggestion
> there. Let us all decide what would be the best way to host such a
> project.
> 
> My gratitude to you. Let's see how far we can go.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Malay
> 
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Bruce ONeel wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm happy to try to help with this.
>>
>>I could collect the algorithms and post them in a library
>>which people could browse etc.
>>
>>It could either be a sourceforge.net project or I could just
>>host it off of edoneel.chaosnet.org.
>>
>>Sound good?  I'm not sure that the idea with the origonal
>>authors playing editor would work.  Also, after watching
>>many wiki's get vandalized I'm not sure that works 
>>so well either, sadly enough.
>>
>>cheers
>>
>>bruce
>>
> 
> 
> 
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