Another one: - create a binary package for your favorite operating system On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 7:35 AM, Greg Landrum <greg.land...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
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