WormBase Staff Resources

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This document describes collaborative tools available to WormBase team members.

Accounts

WormBase uses a number of tools provided by Google Apps to facilitate collaboration, increase transparency, and decrease administration requirements. This list includes WormBase documents (Docs), email (Gmail), a project calendar, discussion lists (Google Groups), collaborative chat, and contact information for all team members.

Project members with a you@wormbase.org account automatically have access to core documents, contact information across the project, and automatic privileges on the new WormBase site.

Interested users can request an account from Todd. Uninterested users can subscribe to things like the mailing lists but won't benefit from the seamless integration of these collaborative tools.

Discussion Groups (Mailing Lists)

WormBase uses a number of mailing lists for discussion provided by Google Groups. You can manage subscriptions yourself, add posts, view threads, and search the archive all from the web.

Creating your own discussion group

With your wormbase.org account you can also create your own groups. This is a perfect way to support new side projects. One advantage of this approach over using ad-hoc distribution lists in your email client is the ability to create searchable archives of discussions, available to the entire web or only subscribed members.

See the groups main page for details.

Calendar

*@wormbase.org account holders can add and edit events on the official WormBase calendars.

http://calendar.wormbase.org/

There are two calendars:

WormBase Details -- a calendar of project events, including conference calls, build deadlines, etc
WormBase Public Events -- a calendar listing public events like meetings

Documents

WormBase documents are available at:

http://docs.wormbase.org/

Email

*@wormbase.org account holders can access email at:

http://mail.wormbase.org/

If desired, email can be forwarded to a secondary account.

Contacts

Social Media

Blog

The official WormBase blog is called "M9":

http://blog.wormbase.org/

This is our primary vehicle for communication with users. You can subscribe to the blog via email at:

http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=wormbase&loc=en_US

Twitter

Our Twitter account is:

http://twitter.com/wormbase

We have a secondary account for source code commits:

http://twitter.com/wormbase-commits

Issue Tracker

WormBase has a single unified issue tracker. Be sure to sign up as a follower of the project so that you can track and follow through on issues you report!

https://bitbucket.org/tharris/wormbase/issues?status=new&status=open

General policies:

  1. Don't worry if something warrants reporting. If in doubt, report it!
  2. Report issues related to web development to Todd for triage.
  3. Include as much detail as necessary to explain the issue.
  4. Keep track of issues you report; if there isn't progress, "bump" the issue or leave a comment.

Source Code

Source code is currently maintained in Mercurial (hg):

https://bitbucket.org/tharris/wormbase