[MOBY-dev] Re: invitation for the RFC committee with a tenure of one year

[David González Pisano]

I'll be glad to represent the INB (aka "The Spanish Contingent") in the 
RFC commitee for a year. Thanks for your invitation,

David

Edward Kawas escribió:

>-----Original Message-----
>From: mark wilkinson [mailto:markw at illuminae.com] 
>Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 3:06 PM
>To: Frank Gibbons; Eddie Kawas
>Subject: Re: [MOBY-l] Using bugzilla to continue RFC on
>Error-handling in MOBY-S
>
>Hey Frank! Cc Eddie
>
>Thanks for riding this.  I am on holiday, and not in Net
>contact except by blackberry, so I'm not "useful" right now.
>
>I think we should put out an invitation on the -dev list for
>the RFC committee with a tenure of one year, but also
>specifically invite the main developers/vested interests to
>be part of it:  me, you, martin, eddie, simon, heiko, paul,
>yan wong, and at least one from the spanish contingent (have
>I missed anyone?).
>
>I don't have all their email addresses on my bberry so
>unless you or Eddie (cc'd) post this invitation to the dev
>list yourselves it may take a week before I am back in
>net-world.  Eddie, could you do this? Tomorrow or this
>afternoon?  It would be good to get this sorted asap to keep
>on schedule.
>
>M
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Frank Gibbons <fgibbons at hms.harvard.edu>
>Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:21:53 
>To:moby-l at biomoby.org
>Subject: [MOBY-l] Using bugzilla to continue RFC on
>Error-handling in MOBY-S
>
>Hi,
>
>I've just added a few "bugs" to the bugzilla, to try to
>preserve the RFC 
>momentum built up over the past few weeks. I propose that,
>although 
>bugzilla is perhaps not ideal for this, it is what it is, it
>is what we 
>have, and it will do for now.
>
>I'd like to propose that we try to continue development of
>this RFC through 
>bugzilla (see bug #1863), rather than through the mailing
>list. Searching 
>through old mail messages (or worse still, through the
>digest, with all of 
>its repeated messages and long inclusions) is tedious, and I
>think 
>contributes to the loss in momentum.
>
>So far, in Martin's scheme for RFC-processing, we have
>(numbers are those 
>used in Martin's original suggestion, now available in the
>codebase as 
>Docs/MOBY-S_API/RFC.html)
>
>1. Had a suggestion made by INB to add this features. It was
>added to 
>bugzilla, No. 1863
>2. Suggested to resolve it by today (Sep-15)
>3. Martin backed up the RFC
>4. I think we have the resources to make this change - it
>seems an 
>essential part of a robust API, which version 1.0 should be.
>5a. List members have exchanged several comments back and
>forth, resulting 
>in amended versions of the RFC being posted to the mailing
>list.
>5b. We've also gotten a little side-tracked by the related
>articleName problem.
>
>So it seems to me that it's time to vote on it (step 6 of
>the Senger 
>seven-step scheme ;-). Martin suggested that Mark would ask
>a limited 
>number of people to vote on it after the resolution date
>(today). I guess 
>those people would self-select, or maybe Mark will select
>them. They will 
>be requested to make a one-year commitment.
>
>After that comes step 7, the "fun part": implementation,
>documentation.
>
>We're pretty close to reaching a conclusion on this. The
>fact is that even 
>if we do nothing, people want this functionality, and they
>WILL implement 
>it. It is in everybody's interest that we have a
>specification for what the 
>functionality should be. It may change over time, but I
>think there has 
>been enough back-and-forth that we have a reasonable first
>draft, and 
>should vote on it.
>
>-Frank
>P.S. Of course, this message, along with version 1.7.1 of
>the RFC is 
>attached to the bug on bugzilla
>
>PhD, Computational Biologist,
>Harvard Medical School BCMP/SGM-322, 250 Longwood Ave,
>Boston MA 02115, USA.
>Tel: 617-432-3555       Fax: 
>617-432-3557       http://llama.med.harvard.edu/~fgibbons 
>
>_______________________________________________
>moby-l mailing list
>moby-l at biomoby.org
>http://biomoby.org/mailman/listinfo/moby-l
>
>--
>Mark Wilkinson
>..on the road!
>
>
>
>  
>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: dgpisano.vcf
Type: text/x-vcard
Size: 338 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/moby-dev/attachments/20050919/8552b4c0/attachment.vcf>