The ‘Maintainers Minutes’ aims to give further insight into the workings of the nf-core maintainers team by providing brief summaries of the monthly team meetings.
Overview
In the February meeting we discussed (amongst others) the following topics:
Spring cleaning
This month we again discussed the upcoming pre-hackathon spring cleaning across all common nf-core repositories (and more!).
As announced last month this will be happening between March 10th and March 14th, where we will be deleting merged branches, archiving abandoned pipelines, and general papercuts bugs to keep everything spick-and-span.
So expect lots of messages, notifications, and PRs from the maintainers team as we 🧹 through!
In our discussion we defined the tasks, and started assigning the maintainers to different teams to tackle the different areas.
Merchandise
James called for a final vote for the design of some exclusive maintainers-only merchandise that will be made available to the maintainers team.
Envious? Want a t-shirt of your favourite pipeline? You want an nf-core/mag mug? You can buy a huge range of nf-core swag on the nf-core shop!
Note that we do not make any profit from any sale - everything is at cost price.
Hackathon projects
We also briefly discussed more ideas for ‘project ideas’ for the upcoming online/hybrid hackathon in March (it’s free! Local site registrations open until March 9th!).
Hackathon projects are ways that you can pull in to solve a particular task as a team or just sit with like-minded people working on similar things. This can be anything from adding new features to existing pipelines, adding modules for a particular tool, updating out of date documentation, working on special interest groups - pretty much anything! If you wish to advertise a project to pull in hackathon participants, please make a PR on the nf-core website.
Smooth running!?
Finally, we did our general round of the maintainers team to see if they felt there were any burning issues or problems with the day-to-day activities and running of the nf-core community…
…and there were none?
So, full speed ahead nf-core!
The end
As always, if you want to get involved and give your input, join the discussion on relevant PRs and slack threads!
- ❤️ from your #maintainers team!
