[Biojava-l] Status of the project?

[Jose Duarte]

Hi Richard

Welcome! The project is definitely alive and there are still frequent
contributions coming in. That said, most of the recent development has
happened in the biojava-structure module. Contributions are welcomed there
and elsewhere.

Regarding version 6, we are planning to release it as soon as possible. We
already have gone through a few alphas. For v6 we are trying to put
together any removal of legacy code and any necessary API changes needed to
continue pushing the project forward. Definitely, there's need to do some
updating of milestones in the github issues. We are trying to catch up with
that.

As you say, the mailing list has lost activity, but that's mostly due to
the move of discussions to github.

Jose


On Sun, 11 Jul 2021 at 17:23, Michael Heuer <heuermh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Richard,
>
> Welcome and thank you for your contributions!
>
> Speaking for the BioJava 1.x series, yes, that is in maintenance mode now.
>
> https://github.com/biojava/biojava-legacy
>
> We'll keep cutting new 1.9.x point releases for security fixes and
> dependency updates as necessary.
>
> BioJava proper (5.4.0+) keeps plugging along; I'll let someone else chime
> in on that.
>
> Cheers,
>
>    michael
>
>
> On Jul 11, 2021, at 7:13 PM, Richard Adams <ra22597 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>  I've just joined the mailing list so wanted to say hello. I used to work
> in bioinformatics/systems biology but for the last few years have been
> doing full time Java development in research data management / ELNs.
>
> I've  started looking at BioJava to incorporate it into some of our
> projects, noticed that test coverage is missing in a few places so have
> submitted some PRs to start tackling this - and I hope to be able to
> contribute more over time as it's a good way to explore the code-base.
>
>  In general, what is the state of the project, is it in 'maintenance' mode
> now? I notice a lot of roadmap issues for version 6 are several years old
> and the mailing list seems quite quiet this year.
>
> Cheers
>  Richard Adams
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