[Go] Ontology-editors at geneontology.org

[Chris Mungall]

On Jul 3, 2008, at 9:44 AM, Suzanna Lewis wrote:

> Why is a new list needed? What distinguishes this from go-editors?  
> I don't see a need for this.

go-editors is not a list, it's an alias for the editors at cambridge.  
You can't subscribe to go-editors and it's not archived.

> My sense is that if the purpose of different mailing lists gets too  
> fine-grained then people don't know which one to use and are unable  
> to consistently pick the appropriate list to send to.

My understanding was that this was to be an ontology content/ 
development discussion and coordination list. It's seems fairly basic  
and obvious that we should have one list for each of the GO groups

> On Jul 3, 2008, at 8:46 AM, Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark) wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The GO Ontology Editors have started a new mailing list called  
>> Ontology-editors at geneontology.org.
>>
>> This list is for those people who regularly check out, edit, and  
>> commit the gene_ontology_write.obo file. It is for technical  
>> discussions on issues to do with the integrity of the file, and  
>> for questions on current editing policy. For example, 'Which  
>> version of OBO-Edit am I meant to be committing from?', or 'Can  
>> anyone help me to revert the OBO file, as I have just committed a  
>> file with a cycle in it.'
>>
>> I think most people were signed up when the list was started, but  
>> just in case I missed anyone the sign-up page is here:
>>
>> http://fafner.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/ontology-editors
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jen
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark)
>> EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
>> Gene Ontology Consortium
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