[Bioperl-l] 1.2.3 release prep, modules needing maintainers

[Lincoln Stein]

Previous remarks aside, I would like to pipe in here to say how much FUN 
maintaining Bio::DB::Genbank has been and how much I ENVY the LUCKY GUY who 
will be taking over this HIGHLY ENTERTAINING activity.

Lincoln


On Tuesday 09 September 2003 10:05 am, Jason Stajich wrote:
> 1.2.3 release schedule
> ======================
>
> I'm planning to do 1.2.3 release candidate by next Monday (15-Sep-03).
> This is contingent on my current full plate of things to do not getting
> any bigger...
>
> I think there were a couple of lingering bugs that should get squashed,
> I'll have to check and see what is left.
>
> The notables off the top of my head:
>
> - A request to add the subsequence retrieval from Entrez to
>   DB::GenBank/DB::GenPept, there is a patch in bugzilla which needs to be
>   tested and applied.
>
> - A couple of TreeIO bugs that I would like to fix before the
>   release, but I am not sure it will get done.  Will do the best I can.
>   These are mostly fixed on the main trunk so will try and migrate them
>   over.
>
> My intention is to wait a week, have people test 1.2.3 candidate and then
> release 1.2.3 on (22-Sep-2003) unless there are any showstoppers.
> I will need volunteers to test the release on different OSes so please
> try and help out when the candidates are made.  You can start testing
> early if you want by checking out the branch 'branch-1-2' from CVS.
>
>
> Modules needing maintainers
> ===========================
>
> A side note- Lincoln has wanted to wash his hands of DB::GenBank
> DB::GenBank::Query so if there are volunteers out there, we could do with
> some other people stepping up to maintain this code.
>
> Similarly I do not have any interest in maintaining StandAloneBlast,
> RemoteBlast because they are not part of my own research direction.
> There are several feature requests, reported bugs in bugzilla about these.
> We would warmly welcome someone to step up and try and add these feature
> requests.
>
>
> -jason
> --
> Jason Stajich
> Duke University
> jason at cgt.mc.duke.edu
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