[Neuroimaging] Mindboggle as part of nipy?

[Ariel Rokem]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Ariel Rokem <arokem at gmail.com> wrote:
> > +1 from here as well!
> >
> > And: https://github.com/nipy/nipy.github.com/pull/6
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:55 AM, JB Poline <jbpoline at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> +1 !
> >>
> >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Satrajit Ghosh <satra at mit.edu> wrote:
> >> > hi all,
> >> >
> >> > while mindboggle is built on top of nipype as an execution pipeline,
> at
> >> > its
> >> > core it is a collection of algorithms and standalone functions for
> >> > structural analysis of brains based on piecewise correspondence.
> >> >
> >> > +1 from my side to include mindboggle in nipy.
> >> >
> >> > cheers,
> >> >
> >> > satra
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Matthew Brett
> >> > <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi Arno,
> >> >>
> >> >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 5:16 AM, Arno Klein <binarybottle at gmail.com>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >> > Hello!  I am planning on an official release of the mindboggle
> >> >> > package
> >> >> > (http://mindboggle.info) in the next few months and would like it
> to
> >> >> > be
> >> >> > more
> >> >> > of a community project. Currently, the mindboggle github repository
> >> >> > is
> >> >> > under
> >> >> > my personal username (https://github.com/binarybottle/mindboggle).
> >> >> > Would
> >> >> > the nipy developer community be interested in integrating
> mindboggle
> >> >> > as
> >> >> > part
> >> >> > of nipy's github repository, https://github.com/nipy/mindboggle?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Any suggestions for making mindboggle a better package that is
> easier
> >> >> > to
> >> >> > maintain by the community are most welcome!
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks for mailing.  I'm afraid I don't know mindboggle, but scanning
> >> >> the front page, do I understand right, that mindboggle is an
> >> >> application building on top of nipype?   Can the nipypers - er pype
> up
> >> >> here?
>
> I guess the next question is - who will be maintaining mindboggle?
>

I don't think that Arno was planning any change in the structure of the
project, from that point of view. I think that someone with admin rights on
the nipy github org could start a "mindboggle" 'team' and designate Arno to
be a manager of this team with all rights on that repo.

Arno - is that what you intended?


> I don't think that it is likely that moving mindboggle to the nipy org
> will help much in attracting developers, although putting it on the
> project pages might (thanks for doing that Ariel).
>
> Has anyone got any other suggestions for keeping mindboggle in good
> health?  It's always a difficult problem...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
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