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
Thanks,
Mike