[Phylobase-devl] Aug. virtual hackathon

[Jombart, Thibaut]

Congratulations Brian for your new position!

I'll be off and far from a computer from 4th to 25th August, so I could help to hack our way onto CRAN starting from the 26th. I'm very pleased to think we're getting close to a first release on CRAN. I think a stable release is essential to allow the existence of other packages which would depend on phylobase for data representation/handling, which was one of the original aim of the package. Actually, I have a young adephylo package, which will ultimately (and hopefully soon) replace all phylogenetic functions in ade4, and uses phylo4/phylo4d classes, that desperately waits for a stable phylobase to become a grown-up package.

Thanks for making things move forward again.

Best,

Thibaut.

 
     
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From: phylobase-devl-bounces at lists.r-forge.r-project.org [phylobase-devl-bounces at lists.r-forge.r-project.org] On Behalf Of Brian O'Meara [omeara.brian at gmail.com]
Sent: 02 August 2009 02:46
To: Ben Bolker
Cc: Phylobase Devs
Subject: Re: [Phylobase-devl] Aug. virtual hackathon

I'm starting a new job this week (prof at U Tenn Knoxville) and so
won't be able to devote much time to a hackathon this month. I do
think a hackathon to get it on CRAN is a good idea, for what that's
worth.

Brian

On Aug 1, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Ben Bolker wrote:

>  I'm at ESA this week.
>
>  Classes start Aug 24 here.
>
>  I'm game pretty much any day 10-21 Aug, although Thursday afternoons
> are not so great.
>
>  Also, be aware that François has been working on a branch (hopefully
> not a fork) --  he decided that it would be better to just bite the
> bullet and maintain persistent internal node IDs (I think that's a
> fair
> representation).  We should hear what he has to say about it, and
> decide
> whether to merge his branch and start from there.
>
>  Thanks for pushing the ball forward ...
>
>  Ben
>
>
> Peter Cowan wrote:
>> phylobase devs,
>>
>> Last December, we had a very successful virtual hackathon.  However,
>> development has stalled since then.  Would folks be interested/
>> willing
>> to participate in a hackathon in the next month, focused on preparing
>> the package for a release to CRAN?  The school year is looming so I
>> suspect for many the sooner the better, though ESA is this week,
>> which
>> will keep at least Steve occupied.
>>
>> * If you are able, what are the best days for you?
>>
>> * What needs to be done before we can submit the package to CRAN?
>> How
>> long do you expect they will take?
>>
>>
>> Personally I'm free anytime.  I need to finish up some changes I've
>> started with the plotting functions, I suspect it will take me a day
>> or two wrap them up.
>>
>> Peter
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