Project Outline

To-dos

• Make error handling as robust and user-friendly as possible
• Add functionality to inputs.txt that checks inputs have an unmodified git status and give friendly warning if check fails
• Create more detailed example scripts for template
• Have lab members test template (on different computing environments) and try to break it
• Write README.md and add user guides where appropriate
• Refactor tablefill and textfill
• Consider adding minimum versions for required software (Python, Stata, R, Lyx, etc.)

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(Previous notes)

• simplify make logging functions so log argument is passed explicitly to builders
• errors in make.py not reported to stdout; program just stops working
• change make.py so can be run from any directory -- just define directory root path at top

get_inputs

• should delete any files in /input/ that are not in inputs.txt
• create symlinks for repo files
• use yaml paths for

setup.py

• Install python tools
• Set and check executables (issue warnings not errors)
• GSLab Python version

config_global.yaml

• program requirements

config_user.yaml

• external storage locations

See also "MG Template Notes" in Evernote.

See also Hunt's RA manual here