On Wed. and Thurs. of this week I attended MIOSS, a workshop on open-source software for molecular informatics. I'm sure there will be a number of blog posts coming about this interesting event, but the only one I've seen so far is from Rajarshi: http://blog.rguha.net/?p=946
One of the topics floating around the discussions throughout was how to encourage more community involvement/contribution in open-source projects. On the way back to Basel I ran across this blog post focusing on the same point, but directed at the python community: http://jessenoller.com/2011/05/05/on-contribution/ I've started putting together a list of things people can do to help with the RDKit. I've tried to roughly sort in order of increasing difficulty/time required. I will eventually put this on the web page, but I'd like to see if anyone in this group has any feedback or additions first. - Post to the mailing list and tell others what you are doing with the RDKit - Make good bug reports - Make detailed feature requests - Answer questions on the mailing list - Write todos, tutorials, or sample scripts - Add/Expand/Improve the documentation. - Add test cases for existing code - Contribute a new descriptor (in python, java, or C++) - Contribute a new fingerprint (in python, java, or C++) - Contribute a new algorithm (in python, java, or C++) - Contribute a reader/writer for a new molecular file format (probably needs to be in C++) - Fix a bug Any other ideas or feedback? Anything I can do to make some of these easier? -greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Rdkit-discuss mailing list Rdkit-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rdkit-discuss
