[Biojava-l] Another release push?

[Michael Dickson]

I'd very much support the release of a 1.2.  I agree there's lots of
work been done that would make an excellent basis for a new release. The
timetable you suggest also looks good Thomas.

BTW, Whats the query stuff mentioned below?

Mike


Thomas Down wrote:

> Hi...
>
> I've just been pondering all the changes which have occured
> since we got BioJava 1.1 out of the door.  For instance:
>
>   - GAME parser
>
>   - XFF parser (with writing framework coming Very Soon)
>
>   - Lots of work on Embl and Genbank read/write
>
>   - Big improvements to the sequence GUI toolkit.
>
>   - DAS client library compliant with DAS/0.996
>
>   - Lots and lots of minor tweaks and bug fixes (for instance,
>     work on Locations, and the introduction of the LocationTools
>     class).
>
>   - Stuff I've forgotten about. ;-)
>
> There are also a few lower-level things happening:
>
>   - Abandonment of the old build tool (yay!)
>
>   - Moving back to using the JAXP API for plugabble XML parsers
>
>   - Start of a proper test suite.
>
> I know it doesn't seem like very long since the 1.1 release
> push, but I think the time might be right to start seriously
> looking at a new release.
>
> Can I propose the following roadmap:
>
>   BioJava 1.2:  Freeze sometime in the next couple of weeks.
>                 Hopefully add more test cases and so on before
>                 release around the time of BOSC.
>
>   BioJava 2.0:  Aim to integrate Matthew's query model, plus
>                 the naming and directory interfaces discussed at
>                 the bootcamp.  Release: target december/january.
>
> Right now, this is all very flexible.  Does anyone else think that
> a push towards a stable 1.2 release in the near future would be
> useful?  Or should we carry right on towards something closer to
> the 2.0 of the roadmap?  Or something completely different?
>
>    Thomas.
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