[Phylobase-devl] Aug. virtual hackathon

[François Michonneau]

  Anytime after Aug 13th would work for me. Before this date, I'll try
to send a list of the changes I've implemented in my branch and my ideas
about what needs to be done before an official release.

  Cheers,
  -- François


On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 10:44 -0700, Steven Kembel wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> thanks to all for getting the ball rolling again and for the recent  
> work on the package. I could participate in a mini-hackathon in the  
> next month (August 10 onwards). I will need to re-familiarize myself  
> before I can guess what and how much needs to be done but agree that  
> getting a stable package onto CRAN would be awesome.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steve
> 
> On Aug 2, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Jombart, Thibaut wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > 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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> >>
> >> --
> >> Ben Bolker
> >> Associate professor, Biology Dep't, Univ. of Florida
> >> bolker at ufl.edu / www.zoology.ufl.edu/bolker
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