[pkg-bioc] CVS %p

Steffen Moeller steffen_moeller at gmx.de
Wed May 23 21:23:33 UTC 2007


Hi,

I did not intend to be or sound critical, I was just explaining what I did.
As you are suggesting, let us have a skype meeting. I'll be in
another skype meeting from 10-11 but otherwise available. Skype should be on 
all the time.

Many greetings

Steffen

On Wednesday 23 May 2007 22:50:01 Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 23 May 2007 at 19:55, CVS User smoe-guest wrote:
> | Update of /cvsroot/pkg-bioc/papers/useR2007
> | In directory alioth:/tmp/cvs-serv4392
> |
> | Modified Files:
> | 	cran2deb.pdf cran2deb.tex
> | Log Message:
> | Hello,
> |
> | against my plans I found some typos. In the text you find many
> |
> | %SM:
> |
> | lines that explain why I think things should be changed. Sometimes
> | I have done the change, sometimes not. At a _few_ places I was mourning
> | a bit for some previously submitted changes that did not make it
> | to the current version.  What made it a bit difficult for me was
> | that I could not distinguish between
> |
> | * Dirk did not like it and
> | * Dirk made an error in reverting
> |
> | and thus I made about 100 times longer comments about a change than the
> | change is itself.
>
> Steffen:
>
> i)  I asked for a weekend meeting on irc/skype/... and no one responded
>
> ii) I asked (repeatedly) for diffs, and not one monstrous file with all
> changes comingled.  So sorry, I did not back out all your changes by hand.
>
> | The figure that is in represents one half of the paper, the symbiosis
> | of the communities.
>
> ... which has nothing to do with the paper.
>
> | The other half, the build process, could well make
> | use a figure, too. However, we do not have space for that, I am afraid.
> | I would be prepared to invest the hours tomorrow, if you could send me a
> | fax with a hand-drawn figure to +49 451 500 5502 with your vision on that
> | to make sure we have a consensus on that front.
> |
> | Should we go for multicols? This should resolve our constraints for space
>
> I'd say no as it will just lead to many new rounds of formatting to fit
> things. The easiest fix is to go from 1inch spaceing to 0.9, 0.8, 0.75,
> ... til we get to 8 pages.  Or kill the history.
>
> | immediately. For the references at least this is very common to have. And
> | I think we would even be allowed to have these in a slightly smaller
> | font.
> |
> | Concerning the length of the paper we can shorten on many fronts, not
> | only on the connecting sentences between and at the beginning of the
> | sections, where my taste seems to be very different. However, the easiest
> | may be to shorten the history section, thus leaving only the
> | acknowledgements which should then also leave the appendix to become a
> | regular \section*{Acknowledgements}.
>
> Yes.
>
> Can we all meet on-line somehow?  Today? Tomorrow?  Maybe with Elijah?
>
> Dirk





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