James Howison wrote: > On 23 Mar 2009, at 6:56 AM, Alan Williams wrote: > >> Marco Roos wrote: >>> Hello user/hacker of T2, >> Hello Marco, >> >>> I would like to raise one of the priorities on the T2 to do list. >>> Please >>> respond to this e-mail if you find the following as much a critical >>> bottleneck as I do. It is about the T2 input window closing after >>> each >>> workflow run. >> This is one of the changes that is planned for Taverna 2.1 The run >> dialog will be improved (including not losing previous values) whilst >> retaining the list-depth checking of Taverna 2. >> >> Longer term we are looking at other ways of improving the run dialog >> e.g. by taking values from the stored provenance of previous (not >> immediately previous) runs, or automatically populating the data >> values >> based upon the type of the data. >> >> [snip] >> >>> Many thanks! >>> Marco. >> Alan > > Has the Taverna team considered kinda altering its standard response > to questions like this, so to build an open source community? What I > mean is that if I see a response that says "It's coming in 2.x" then I > think, ok I guess I'll wait for it (while gradually becoming more > disillusioned). I felt that a lot in the wait for T2 itself.
That's a very good point. I'm sorry if my response was demotivating - I didn't mean it to be. We welcome help in developing Taverna. It is most definitely not a closed project. Details of how to contribute can be found on http://www.taverna.org.uk/developer-information > OTOH, if I see a response that says, "hey, great idea, I think one > would have to make some changes to the Foo class <link to SVN>" then > maybe, just maybe, I'll roll up my sleeves and have a bash at it. A > little hand-holding through the code sometimes goes a long way (on > taverna-hackers, of course!). No guarantees, of course, but that's > open source for you. We are looking at how to get more people involved. I've been looking at how other projects do it - I chose at random GIMP, Miro, OpenOffice and Firefox. One of the best ideas seems to have small "projects" corresponding to stories of improvements that can be made in specific areas. People can volunteer to work on specific projects. Any other suggestions are very welcome. > Whether the project accepted such a patch would be a different > question, of course, and that discussion is always easier once the > code in hand. Other projects have a mechanism whereby you can get write access to the repository by being approved by a project leader, normally after previous good work in submitting patches. > But FWIW, my point is that roadmaps are sometimes counter-intuitively > demotivating to a community, if you are looking for contribution... I see your point and will think about it. > I'm not following taverna-hackers so perhaps I'm speaking out of turn > here, just a thought :) No, it was very welcome :-) > Cheers, > James Alan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ taverna-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/taverna-users Documentation: http://www.mygrid.org.uk/usermanual1.7/ FAQ: http://www.mygrid.org.uk/wiki/Mygrid/TavernaFaq Biological Services: http://www.mygrid.org.uk/wiki/Mygrid/BiologicalWebServices
