[Bioperl-l] distant thoughts from a dinosaur...

[Hilmar Lapp]

:-) welcome back from honeymoon

Good posting Ewan. Was the train stopped along the way? ;)

On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 11:22  AM, Ewan Birney wrote:

>     --- *my* (personal choice!) favourites for the person or the small
> cabal would be one of Aaron and Heikki, but I do feel that anyone who
> made good suggestions and ended up doing the work can just as easily
> be a good person to lead this --- it is just that I haven't got to
> know them yet!. Jason would also be excellent, but he's got to
> concentrate on his PhD (US PhDs are too long anyway without
> encouragement), and I'll sit on him if he spends too much time on
> Bioperl <grin>. ChrisM would also be a great person, but he has alot
> on his plate; Lincoln would be great but he **really** has too much on
> his plate (don't even think it Lincoln); Hilmar would also be great
> but I strongly suspect he'd say no ;). I would trust Elia if we wanted
> to do this (fancy it Elia?); Paul E as well as a new outsider might
> work out well, but I haven't actively used much of his code. Anyone 
> else
> - and I do mean **anyone** could be the focal point if he/she got the
> trust of us as a community...
>

I do say no :-)  I agree with your general view of one or a few people 
leading this effort.

*My* personal favourite(s) for this or these persons is someone new, 
not from the present core, or at least someone new in a strong role. My 
take is that we all have too much stake in the present codebase to be 
able to truly take a step back and look at it emotionless and without 
bias. I think we'd be excellent advisers but bad revolutionists. At 
least as far as I'm concerned.

Also, new blood is good. All of us will move on at some point and new 
people will need to be there to pick up the baton.

	-hilmar

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Hilmar Lapp                            email: lapp at gnf.org
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