Re: [galaxy-user] An idea for sharing tools

> At the moment, the main repo is maintained by the galaxy team, and > that is fine and makes sense. However, I'm sure there is a lot of > duplicated work between the users when adding other tools in. For > example, there was a conversation the other day about adding in awk. > Someone had already done this, so the best idea would be if I could > pull in that definition and enable it with minimum effort. I have > already added tools (exonerate, restriction mapper, etc, etc) that may > be of use to other people. Not sure the best way to go about this, > but if my understanding of mercurial is right, we can simply offer > another repo for people to pull changes from. This is something we're very interested in facilitating. For the long term, we're hoping to provide a structured / wiki environment for people to share tools and suites of tools, as well as providing more support in the application for adding self-contained tool suites to a Galaxy instance, injecting local configuration into tools and tool suites, et cetera. However, we'd also be very happy to see the mailing list used for this at the moment, and might even be able to open up a section of the wiki for users to list the tools they are making available.