dear core Bioc-ers, It would be nice to have more devel mailing list notices about large scale build issues, just to keep developers in the loop. (e.g. I often get a number of emails when GenomicRanges is down, asking why I'm breaking someone's downstream package). Or if you don't want to "push" these out to the list, to have a URL where core team could post information about what's going on in devel and rough timelines about upcoming changes. Then developers can "pull" this information when they need to. thanks for all your work! There are lots of exciting things in the next release, and I know that's it's a lot of work to get to the finish. best, Mike
[Bioc-devel] request for more notices about build issues
2 messages · Michael Love, Sean Davis
Is this a use case for a "graphical" build report that displays the build status on a graph/DAG? http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/vignettes/pkgDepTools/inst/doc/pkgDepTools.pdf pkgDepTools, combined with a computable build report (a downloadable version of the current build report), might allow a graphical (in both node and edge as well as visual) build report. I could envision a color scheme applied to a figure like the last figure in the PDF above. A little functionality could be built to find the "root" of a build problem for any specific package (to the extent that pkgDepTools can capture the dependencies). This is not a well-thought-out answer, so take it with a grain of salt. Sean On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Michael Love <michaelisaiahlove at gmail.com> wrote:
dear core Bioc-ers, It would be nice to have more devel mailing list notices about large scale build issues, just to keep developers in the loop. (e.g. I often get a number of emails when GenomicRanges is down, asking why I'm breaking someone's downstream package). Or if you don't want to "push" these out to the list, to have a URL where core team could post information about what's going on in devel and rough timelines about upcoming changes. Then developers can "pull" this information when they need to. thanks for all your work! There are lots of exciting things in the next release, and I know that's it's a lot of work to get to the finish. best, Mike
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