Quantcast
Channel: Ask the FireCloud Team — GATK-Forum
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 1147

Method Namespaces: docs do not make clear that namespaces are implicitly created

$
0
0

Today I tried to help a new user create a new namespace in the method repository. But after searching the docs and forum several times, I could not locate a snippet of documentation that addresses this subject clearly. For example, going to

  https://software.broadinstitute.org/firecloud/documentation/

and entering "namespace" then choosing the FireCloud tab yields only 4 results

 https://software.broadinstitute.org/firecloud/search?q=namespace#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=namespace&gsc.ref=more%3Afirecloud&gsc.sort=

(the second of which is completely broken, BTW: it shows a page with "Wrong category group specified? No match found!")

We eventually experimented by pushing a WDL to a non-existent namespace and observed that the namespace was implicitly created during such. I'm not in love with that behavior, because it's dangerous (especially when namespaces cannot be deleted, so you're stuck if you accidentally make a typo), but I'll leave that to a different post. Here I'll simply ask that Namespace creation be explicitly documented in

https://software.broadinstitute.org/firecloud/documentation/topic?name=firecloud-help-topics#method-repository

Thanks,
Mike


Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 1147

Trending Articles