[Ontology-editors] SF Tracker: XP Group

[Chris Mungall]

On Oct 7, 2008, at 2:26 AM, Midori Harris wrote:

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>> I was going to retrospectively go through tracker items and assign  
>> them to the "XP" group if the tracker item derives from XP/reasoner- 
>> based QC checks.
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> OK
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>> This may be useful for tracker metrics/analysis.
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> Perhaps, tho I'd caution against reading too much into SF counts  
> (more below).
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>> Is this OK? It will generate tracker emails for anyone monitoring  
>> the items which may be annoying. I also don't want to mess with any  
>> existing system. I notice these items are in the group "GO". Does  
>> this mean that the item was finally resolved by the GO editorial  
>> office?
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> The emails are no big deal;  we all have plenty of experience  
> deleting them ;)
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> Anyway, onward ... to the last question, a qualified yes ...
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> The "GO" group is something of a catchall - the other groups are  
> usually used to denote which group, such as a MOD or a GO interest  
> group, originated the item. If we don't have another group to  
> attribute an item to, we'll put it in the "GO" group. But it does  
> also tend to mean that
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> One reason our use of groups generally, and the "GO" group in  
> particular, is so sloppy is just historical -- our usage evolved  
> slowly without advance planning. But another reason is that the SF  
> tracker group system isn't ideal for our purposes (I assume it makes  
> more sense for software bug tracking).

only insofar as software development is generally sloppier and easier  
than ontology development

> I quite often find it frustrating that a given tracker item can only  
> be in one group; we're already encountering cases where a simple  
> term request is for both a MOD and the Ref Genome project, and have  
> to choose one group arbitrarily for the tracker item. When we start  
> getting things like "SGD requested a term that everyone will use for  
> ref gen annotation (RG), and Tanya (TAIR) and David (MGI) worked on  
> it, and it's got an xp definition and tags (XP) ..." it's only gonna  
> get worse. We need a better way -- more flexible than SF categories  
> and groups, but at least as easy to use -- to keep track of which  
> changes count toward which group metrics. Can we chat about it at  
> the meeting?

OK.

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