[Bioc-devel] Package Home Pages

I just modified the build system to add "Bioconductor Changelog" links to
the "Multiple platform build/check report" pages. To see an example of these
links go to

http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/2.2/bioc-LATEST/

and look for the Bioconductor Changelog links. Similar links will be added
to the BioC 2.3 report when it is created later tonight.

Given that the changelog is geared towards developers, I did not include a
link in the package home pages that Wolfgang referred to because it could
fall into the category of too much information for a general user of the
package. If the Bioconductor development community believes we should
include a link on the package home pages as well, I will add them. It
doesn't take much effort to change the infrastructure.


Cheers,
Patrick



Patrick Aboyoun wrote:

Sean and Wolfgang,
I think these two enhancements to the bioconductor.org website would be
very useful and not too much work to implement. I'll add them on the website
task list and send out a message to this group when they are implemented. If
there are any other related ideas, keep them coming. It is easier to
implement them all at once, rather than one at a time.


Patrick


Sean Davis wrote:

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Wolfgang Huber <huber at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:

Hi all,

I like the package overview pages, such as
http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/cellHTS2.html

Would it be possible that they also link to the output of, for example:

svn log --username readonly --password readonly \
https://hedgehog.fhcrc.org/bioconductor/trunk/madman/Rpacks/gcrma

which any of our users can run (but I assume most wouldn't know how to)?

This additional service to our users may also encourage pkg developers
to be more precise in their svn log entries :)

Hi, Wolfgang.  I agree this would be a simple and useful addition for
the devel archives.  Since we already have the bioconductor change log
in place, it would be trivial to change the HTML on the devel pages to
include a link like:

http://fgc.lsi.umich.edu/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/cellHTS2

Sean