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

[Gibbons, Francis]

Thanks for the invitation, Eddie & Mark. I'm glad to be part of this, excited that we've gotten this far and looking to completing our first formal RFC.
 
-Frank

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Edward Kawas [mailto:edward.kawas at gmail.com] 
	Sent: Thu 9/15/2005 6:46 PM 
	To: 'Moby Developers' 
	Cc: 'Martin Senger'; 'Eddie Kawas'; 'Twigger Simon'; 'Paul Gordon'; ywong at infobiogen.fr; schoof at mpiz-koeln.mpg.de; Gibbons, Francis ; dgpisano at cnb.uam.es 
	Subject: invitation for the RFC committee with a tenure of one year
	
	



	-----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
	
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