- From: alan.garny at physiol.ox.ac.uk (Alan Garny)
- Subject: [cellml-discussion] A single software centre for cellml.org
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:32:04 -0000
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[mailto:cellml-discussion-bounces at cellml.org] On Behalf Of
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Andrew Miller
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Sent: 21 November 2006 21:25
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To: For those interested in contributing to the development of CellML.
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Subject: Re: [cellml-discussion] A single software centre for
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cellml.org
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David Nickerson wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> Currently it is quite painful to browse through the cellml.org site
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> looking for the latest releases of software being developed
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under the
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> CellML Project. To try and enhance the usability of the
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site, I would
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> like to suggest that we centralise on a single plone
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software centre
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> in the cellml.org site, possibly located at
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> http://www.cellml.org/downloads (which currently seems to
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redirect down to .../tools/api/downloads).
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> This would provide a single, easily accessible location
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where all the
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> software being developed under the CellML Project would be
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available,
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> much like the sourceforge.net project downloads pages.
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> A link to the downloads page would also be added to the "Use" menu.
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> Objections? comments?
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I think this is a good idea. The only problem is that we
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given out a lot of existing URLs to the individual PSCs, so
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we need to keep them working. Also, we need to provide access
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to the downloads page (perhaps just through a link) from the
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pages about individual projects.
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Do we migrate the existing data (is this even possible?) into
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a single tracker, manually re-enter all those releases, or
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keep the old trackers and only put new releases in the new tracker?
Talking of existing URLs, there are quite a few that don't work at the
moment (e.g. go to
http://www.cellml.org/specifications/cellml_1.1 and the
to appendix D: none of the links there works...) . Is there some kind of a
tool that could check all broken links?
Alan.
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