<p dir="ltr">Yes, it will take a certain sort of person. I think an interactive powwow of some kind would be very good. Who out there is interested (Francisco? Leon? )</p>
<br/><div class="cm_quote" style=" color: #787878">On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Fields, Christopher J <<a href="mailto:cjfields@illinois.edu">cjfields@illinois.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br><div id="oldcontent" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><blockquote style=""><p dir="ltr">Agree completely (and I could help co-mentor if needed). But to add, this has been proposed in the past two GSoC with no takers.
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I really v1.7 should be the ‘disintegrate the monolith’ series, with no obvious dramatic API changes. The initial intent was to ditch the alternative dev/stable cycle, but I think for something like this we need a cycle of developer releases.
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Might be worth having a Google Hangout or IRC session (#bioperl on freenode) about ideas on this?
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> On Feb 16, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Mark Jensen <maj@fortinbras.us> wrote:
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> I think an important project to BP's future is to finally disintegrate
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> Easy for me to say, absolutely, but maybe a student who is also interested
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> On 2015-02-13 23:38, Fields, Christopher J wrote:
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>> All,
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>> OBF and The Perl Foundation are both working on reapplying for the
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>> Here is the spot for OBF-specific project ideas:
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>> Perl-related ones can also be added here:
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>> http://blogs.perl.org/users/shadowcat_mdk/2015/02/gsoc-2015.html
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>> http://wiki2.enlightenedperl.org/index.php5?title=2015_Ideas_Page
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>> chris
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