[Biojava-dev] biojava 3.0 release plan

[Andreas Prlic]

Hi,

BioJava 3 has matured massively in SVN during this year and it is time to
prepare a first release. I propose the following release plan. See also two
other topics for discussion below.

Release Plan 3.0

* Alpha release build(s)
  during the next days I will start to provide a first alpha release build.
This will be followed by semi-regular follow up alpha builds (depending on
SVN activity)

- During the next weeks any missing features should be committed to SVN.
 Refactoring of code can still be done during this time.
- Add and update documentation in wiki
- Module maintainers: check compile warnings for your modules in automated
builds. Make sure no compile warnings are being displayed.


* Beta release build(s)
  the first beta release is scheduled for the weekend Nov 21st.

- From this point on only minor changes (bug fixes) should be added to the
code base
- Module maintainers: check and update javadoc for your modules

* Release 3.0
  The 3.0 Release is scheduled for Dez 12th


There are two things we should still discuss:

* backwards compatibility:
the current "core" module contains tons of legacy 1.7 code. Shall I go ahead
and delete this module?

* documentation:
The wiki contains tons of documentation for 1.7 which will not be useful for
3.0. As a procedure for cleaning this up and avoiding confusion I suggest to
move all 1.7 related docu into a special section of the wiki. All toplevel
links to documentation should point to 3.0. Any other suggestions?


Andreas