Distributing project guidance to the community
Keywords: Tactical emphasis, short and medium term planning, area/domain/component focused, applied
Galaxy has grown a lot over the years, going from a project at one university in 2005 to the global community it is today. Several parts of the Galaxy ecosystem have become avowedly and obviously community driven during that time, including tools, code, training, and several other international efforts. Galaxy Working Groups push this global model to other areas of Galaxy as well. Working groups are an integral part of the Galaxy Governance Model and are represented by the Galaxy Technical Board.
Current set of Working Groups
The current set of working groups includes these areas:
Focus on Galaxy administration, maintenance, and installation.
- Google Drive
- Matrix Channel
- GitHub Project Admin
- GitHub Project Deployment
- Organizer: Björn Grüning
Focus on the Galaxy server code and architecture.
- GitHub Project
- Google Drive
- Matrix Channel
- Organizers: Marius van den Beek, John Chilton
The UI / UX group focuses on the Galaxy user interface and experience. We work on the parts of Galaxy that end users see.
- GitHub Project
- Matrix Channel
- Google Drive
- Organizers: Dannon Baker, Aysam Guerler
Testing and hardening the Galaxy ecosystem, developing and maintaining test infrastructure.
- GitHub Project
- Google Drive
- Matrix Channel
- Organizers: John Chilton, John Davis
This group builds the standards and ecosystem for execution, testing, publishing and improving workflows, workflow features and workflow performance.
- GitHub
- Google Drive
- Matrix Channel
- Organizers: Marius van den Beek, Alex Ostrovsky
Coordinate and guide Galaxy's Outreach & Training efforts, as well as user, admin, and developer support and documentation. Galaxy Outreach And Training (And) Support = GOATS!
- GitHub Project
- Google Drive
- Matrix Channel
- Support Charter and Priorities
- Organizer: Delphine Lariviere
Communications across working groups.
Please consider joining if you are involved in any working group.
NOTE: This is not an exhaustive or final list of working groups. New groups will be added as needs are identified.
Calendar
Galaxy WGs Google Calendar, listing meetings of all Galaxy working groups and projects. You can subscribe to this calendar via this iCalendar link.
Committers Groups
Keywords: Tactical emphasis, short and medium term planning, repo focused, applied
Cutting across all Working Groups, Committers Groups are responsible for what goes into the project repositories (and in Galaxy everything goes into repositories, including training materials and web sites). Each GitHub repository has its own committers group, and each group is responsible for setting its own policies and membership. Committers have been around since the start of the project in 2005, and have been community-driven since 2015.