[Biojava-l] [Biojava-dev] Brainstorming feature requests

[Andreas Prlic]

Thanks Spencer, great initiative!

Andreas


On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Spencer Bliven <sbliven at ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> The recent thread on the dev list about participating in BioJava made me
> realize that our list of feature requests is pretty sparse and
> disorganized. In the current state of things, I think we are missing out on
> getting contributions from new developers who want to help but don't know
> where to start. The github
> issues<https://github.com/biojava/biojava/issues>consist mostly of
> very technical bugs best fixed by the developer who wrote
> the code, and the wiki
> page<http://biojava.org/wiki/BioJava3_Feature_Requests>is short,
> general, and hasn't been updated in a while.
>
> Let's brainstorm some more feature requests. Where are the holes in our
> API? Are there any algorithms that would be useful to have in Java? I know
> that I have a list of features which I plan to implement "some day" but
> never bothered to write down anywhere. Let's add all those ideas to github,
> so that potential contributors or potential summer of code students can get
> some ideas. I'll start by creating issues for the current feature requests.
>
> -Spencer
>
> P.S. Should we use the 'enhancement' or 'new feature' label on github for
> feature requests? They are used inconsistently right now.
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