[Bioperl-l] branched for 1.0

[Jason Stajich]

I've tagged and branched the code for 1.0.  This means if you have bug
fixes to check in you will need to do it twice or else merge your changes
from the branch onto the trunk.

To do this, you will need two checkouts of the bioperl code:
The branch
% cvs -d :ext:MYNAME@bio.perl.org:/home/repository/bioperl co -r
branch-1-0-0 -d branch-1.0 bioperl-live
The -d branch-1.0 will checkout the code in a diretory of that name to
help you distinguish.

The normal, main-trunk code:
% cvs -d :ext:MYNAME@bio.perl.org:/home/repository/bioperl co bioperl-live

apply fix and check-ins in both directories

( I realize now that I made a boo-boo and named the branch branch-1-0-0
  instead of branch-1-0-0 but hopefully we can all live with that or I
  can sed s/branch-1-0-0/branch-1-0/ in the repository)

Anyone who is doing any major bioperl coding should have both the main
trunk and the branch code checked out and should apply any bugfixes to
both branches.

A note about branches.

It is very important for us to maintain a stable release of bioperl, so
nothing should be checked into the branch that changes the API of the
toolkit.  We'd like to go to the release schedule of at least 1 major
releases a year.  This may get improved to more than one if we have an
active developer base and are able to move the toolkit towards new
directions.  The bottom line: New modules and major functionality
additions should be confined to the main-trunk and the branch should be
left with only bug fixes.

The Core will hopefully draft a "State of the Onion"-like announcement of
where we think Bioperl should be going in the next 6-9 months and anyone
is more than welcome to describe what new functionality they are
interested in.  I think that some of the future directions include:

 * Remote application execution
 * Assemblies
 * more structure support
 * Alignment / Tree building expansion
 * more EMBOSS output parsers to map to bioperl objects

If you've been sitting on the sidelines and any of these (or your own pet
project) interest you and you'd like to help, speak up!

I'll have the 1.0alpha2-rc tarball out on the site by tonight or monday
morning.

Going to be distracted by college basketball for a little while!

-jason

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Jason Stajich
Duke University
jason@cgt.mc.duke.edu