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Policies and Practical Hints for Members of the BBCI Group

IN CONSTRUCTION

Table of Contents

• /BBCISVNpolicy - What to put where in the SVN etc.: #svn-policy

• Writing papers: #writing-papers

• Accommodate new group members: #new-members

SVN Policy

-- In Construction --

DO NOT commit PDFs and MATs to the 'matlab' SVN bbci. Our policy is to use the 'bbci' SVN as far as possible only for Matlab *.m files. Otherwise its size will grow too much.

PDFs and other figures should be put into the SVN bbci_tex. There is a folder structure that corresponds to bbci/investigation (i.e., 'studies', 'projects', 'private', 'presentation' with their subfolders).

Furthermore, we usually do not put results files in the SVN, but store them under

• [DATA_DIR 'results/]

(again with the same subfolder structure). By synchronizing your local results directory with the respective folder on the cluster, you can also exchange results with others, without stressing the SVN. (DATA_DIR is a global variable that should be set in the Matlab startup script of each machine, e.g. DATA_DIR='/home/bbci/data/' on the cluster.)

Note, that also putting temporarily large files into the SVN and deleting them afterwards blows up the size of the SVN (after deleting not in the individual checkouts, but on the central file server).

Writing Papers

Accomodate New Group Members

Rights to access the svn

• Go with the new member to Andrea or Imke for administrative steps (which?) and to get an office key.

• The new member has to create a wiki account on https://wiki.ml.tu-berlin.de/wiki/IDA. The convention for the login is FirstnameLastname, e.g., BenjaminBlankertz.

• Then you have to write an email to Dominik Kühne <dominik.kuehne@tu-berlin.de>:

Dear Dominik,

we have a new member in the BBCI group. Please do the following thing:
 * Give access to the BBCI Wiki. The login is: FILLIN.
 * Give access to all BBCI parts of the SVN.
 * Add the user to the 'bbci' group on the cluster.
 * ??Register the mac address for LAN access in the 7th floor.?? Is this neccessary??

Thank you,
  XYZ

• Then the new member can checkout the following SVNs.

  • https://ml01.zrz.tu-berlin.de/svn/ida/public/bbci

  • https://ml01.zrz.tu-berlin.de/svn/ida/public/bbci_tex

  • https://ml01.zrz.tu-berlin.de/svn/ida/public/texmf

• Under windows this can be done with TortoiseSVN. In Linux it works as follows:

  mkdir ~/svn
  cd ~/svn
  svn checkout --username UserName https://ml01.zrz.tu-berlin.de/svn/ida/public/bbci bbci

• In Linux: put a symbol link to the texmf directory in the home (assuming ~/svn/texmf is the path to the texmf directory):

cd
ls -s svn/texmf .

• Give the new member the password of the springfield and the guest WLAN.
• Give the new member the web address of the BBCI wiki.
• Instruct how to use the coffee machine (+ payment).