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

[Mark Wilkinson]

Thanks David!

Just to clarify, "the Spanish Contingent" was not meant to be insulting 
in any way (nor even forwarded to the mailing list at all) - there are 
just a lot of you using Moby in Spain, between INB and Alfonso's group, 
etc., so I didn't know who/how many would want to join this committee, 
so I just referred to you as a group in a private message to Eddie, 
which he then forwarded to the mailing list :-)

M



David González Pisano wrote:

> 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,
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>> Boston MA 02115, USA.
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>> Mark Wilkinson
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