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[cellml-discussion] A single software centre for cellml.org


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  • 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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cellml-discussion-bounces at cellml.org
> [mailto:cellml-discussion-bounces at cellml.org] On Behalf Of
> Andrew Miller
> Sent: 21 November 2006 21:25
> To: For those interested in contributing to the development of CellML.
> Subject: Re: [cellml-discussion] A single software centre for
> cellml.org
>
> David Nickerson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Currently it is quite painful to browse through the cellml.org site
> > looking for the latest releases of software being developed
> under the
> > CellML Project. To try and enhance the usability of the
> site, I would
> > like to suggest that we centralise on a single plone
> software centre
> > in the cellml.org site, possibly located at
> > http://www.cellml.org/downloads (which currently seems to
> redirect down to .../tools/api/downloads).
> >
> > This would provide a single, easily accessible location
> where all the
> > software being developed under the CellML Project would be
> available,
> > much like the sourceforge.net project downloads pages.
> >
> > A link to the downloads page would also be added to the "Use" menu.
> >
> > Objections? comments?
> >
> I think this is a good idea. The only problem is that we
> given out a lot of existing URLs to the individual PSCs, so
> we need to keep them working. Also, we need to provide access
> to the downloads page (perhaps just through a link) from the
> pages about individual projects.
>
> Do we migrate the existing data (is this even possible?) into
> a single tracker, manually re-enter all those releases, or
> 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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