Collaboration Tools

For use by the TERRA Reference Phenotyping Standards Committee.

Overview

All of the web-based software below provides the ability to organize projects hierarchically, facilitate sharing, and support collaboration. Much of this is publicly viewable.

Core Communication Tools

• Github github.com/terraref project management, website content and hosting, collaborative software development

• Google Drive collaborative editing of documents that we create (notes, manuscripts, etc)

• Slack: terra-ref.slack.com (signup)

GitHub

TERRA Ref sites on Github:

• Data products repository https://github.com/terraref/reference-data

  • issues and milestones: https://github.com/terraref/reference-data/issues

• Computational Pipeline Repository https://github.com/terraref/computational-pipeline

  • issues and milestones: https://github.com/terraref/computational-pipeline/issues

• Website for R&D : https://terraref.ncsa.illinois.edu

• Documentation

  • GitHub Repository: https://terraref.ncsa.illinois.edu

  • Edit in the GitBook Desktop Editor or GitBook Web interface (see GitBook Documentation)

Using Github:

• Features

  • Interface to 'git', a specialized command-line tool for version control.

  • code management / collaboration:

  • Issue tracking and discussion forum https://guides.github.com/features/issues/

    • participants can reply to issues via email, similar to an email discussion list

• GitHub Documentation

• GitHub Desktop