HowTo: request features and report bugs

[Klaus Kopec]

update

see my next comment to get information about the trello CLANS development board and how to get access.

original message

From mid-September until the end of the year, I'm most likely going to dedicate a significant amount of my work time to implement CLANS improvements. Some of them are already visible from my commits of the last months.

In general, I'll try to clean up the code and refactor it and then proceed to implement new features. I already have a decent set of feature/improvement ideas, but I'd like to hear yours too to get the best out of my time investment.

Please comment here with your ideas so we can discuss them.

[Tancred Frickey]

Hi Klaus,

thanks for all the hard work, the program is looking in better shape than ever (apart from the few bugs that creep into any such large updates).

I am looking into where the dots are disappearing, but currently am having trouble getting my eclipse to allow fetches and commits ('not authorized' errors) Once that is solved I'll chase down the problem.

I'll also think about possible 'improvements' and pass them on to you. (currently the only one I can think of is to include a neighbor-joining approach to display the data in a tree-format, but there you run into the difficulty of dealing with 'missing' connections and how to best display the high-dimensionality and how changes in cutoff-selection affect tree topology... haven't given it that much thought yet)

In any case, nice job so far & thanks for un-messying my old code (that can't be fun)

Cheers & best wishes,

Tancred

[Klaus Kopec]

To make collecting features and bugs more convenient for the core CLANS people, I moved all my ideas to a trello board. Trello is a collaborative online project management tool with free accounts that have all basic functionality.

How do you get access, I hear you ask?

1. You need a trello account [skip to 2. if you have one already]. Sign up using https://trello.com/klauskopec/recommend (full disclosure: +1 month premium for me for referring; nothing for you) or using https://trello.com (full disclosure: makes me cry).
2. tell me your trello user name here or via email to [e-mail]
3. I'll grant you full access to the board
4. Special offer: if your name is Tancred Frickey, you instantly become a board admin so you can add people, too!

[Tancred Frickey]

currently I can't bring myself to sign up to yet another service, (not even to get admin rights, but thanks for the offer :-)

one more thing popped up: on a fairly slow computer, the blast searches may end up being analyzed before all of the data has been written to disk. Maybe add a delay or check whether the file writing is really done before starting the parser (BlastVersion2 --> HspReaderVersion2)?

[Klaus Kopec]

from now on, I'll not comment on everything posted here but I'll add it to my dev board. Once fixed I'll report back. To keep things simple, please open new issues if you want to report bugs here instead of in trello so that we can close fixed things as we used to do. The same goes for feature requests.

[Tancred Frickey]

roger, wilco,

Tancred