Discussion : What stops you from using new tools in your daily work?

[badgrenola]

What stops you from using new tools? ⁃ Tools small demo for specific use cases ⁃ Which is the right level of complexity of tools?

[aprossi]

Elements that could affect/prevent to use new tools mentioned:

• inertia (time, effort, learning curve)
  • modularity (if a new tool is/is not capable/easy to plug into a pipeline
• acceptance by the community (peer review, user base)
• reliability

[badgrenola]

• Resource/tools list would be incredibly useful
• List of common problems people are facing would also allow developers to address the correct problems.
• Knowledge of tools tends to be limited to very specific use cases
• SPICE is probably the only really trusted tool.

[badgrenola]

https://software-carpentry.org/

[badgrenola]

http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001745

[badgrenola]

https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005510

[nmanaud]

This issue was moved to http://forum.openplanetary.org/t/discussion-what-stops-you-from-using-new-tools-in-your-daily-work/26