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How we develop software (2015 version)
A colleague who is starting their own computational lab just asked me for some advice on how to run software projects, and I wrote up the following. Comments welcome!
A brief summary of what we've converged on for our own needs is this:
everything's on github (you can have private …
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RFC: The khmer project: what are we, and what are our goals?
As we think about the next few years of khmer development, it is helpful to explore what khmer is, and what our goals for khmer development are. This can provide guiding principles for development, refactoring, extension, funding requests, and collaborations.
Comments solicited!
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- khmer github repo: https://github.com/ged-lab …
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Exhibiting aggressive competence
This last term I facilitated the participation of five MSU students in the Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects (UCOSP) program, in which students do distributed open source software development and receive home institution credit. UCOSP was managed out of U Toronto by Greg Wilson, and I was (and am) enthusiastic …
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I'm nominally involved in co-mentoring or cheerleading 5 Google Summer of Code projects this summer, and several of the students have the same problem: they send me one big e-mail (or post one big blog entry), every few weeks, asking for input.
This imposes a big energetic barrier to me …
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