[MOBY-dev] Re: invitation for the RFC committee with a tenure of one year

[Twigger Simon]

Hi Mark, Eddie,

Thanks for the invite, I am certainly happy to help out on the RFC  
committee. I promise to vote early and often.

Simon,


On Sep 15, 2005, at 5:46 PM, Edward Kawas wrote:

>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mark wilkinson [mailto:markw at illuminae.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 3:06 PM
> To: Frank Gibbons; Eddie Kawas
> Subject: Re: [MOBY-l] Using bugzilla to continue RFC on
> Error-handling in MOBY-S
>
> Hey Frank! Cc Eddie
>
> Thanks for riding this.  I am on holiday, and not in Net
> contact except by blackberry, so I'm not "useful" right now.
>
> I think we should put out an invitation on the -dev list for
> the RFC committee with a tenure of one year, but also
> specifically invite the main developers/vested interests to
> be part of it:  me, you, martin, eddie, simon, heiko, paul,
> yan wong, and at least one from the spanish contingent (have
> I missed anyone?).
>
> I don't have all their email addresses on my bberry so
> unless you or Eddie (cc'd) post this invitation to the dev
> list yourselves it may take a week before I am back in
> net-world.  Eddie, could you do this? Tomorrow or this
> afternoon?  It would be good to get this sorted asap to keep
> on schedule.
>
> M
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Gibbons <fgibbons at hms.harvard.edu>
> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:21:53
> To:moby-l at biomoby.org
> Subject: [MOBY-l] Using bugzilla to continue RFC on
> Error-handling in MOBY-S
>
> Hi,
>
> I've just added a few "bugs" to the bugzilla, to try to
> preserve the RFC
> momentum built up over the past few weeks. I propose that,
> although
> bugzilla is perhaps not ideal for this, it is what it is, it
> is what we
> have, and it will do for now.
>
> I'd like to propose that we try to continue development of
> this RFC through
> bugzilla (see bug #1863), rather than through the mailing
> list. Searching
> through old mail messages (or worse still, through the
> digest, with all of
> its repeated messages and long inclusions) is tedious, and I
> think
> contributes to the loss in momentum.
>
> So far, in Martin's scheme for RFC-processing, we have
> (numbers are those
> used in Martin's original suggestion, now available in the
> codebase as
> Docs/MOBY-S_API/RFC.html)
>
> 1. Had a suggestion made by INB to add this features. It was
> added to
> bugzilla, No. 1863
> 2. Suggested to resolve it by today (Sep-15)
> 3. Martin backed up the RFC
> 4. I think we have the resources to make this change - it
> seems an
> essential part of a robust API, which version 1.0 should be.
> 5a. List members have exchanged several comments back and
> forth, resulting
> in amended versions of the RFC being posted to the mailing
> list.
> 5b. We've also gotten a little side-tracked by the related
> articleName problem.
>
> So it seems to me that it's time to vote on it (step 6 of
> the Senger
> seven-step scheme ;-). Martin suggested that Mark would ask
> a limited
> number of people to vote on it after the resolution date
> (today). I guess
> those people would self-select, or maybe Mark will select
> them. They will
> be requested to make a one-year commitment.
>
> After that comes step 7, the "fun part": implementation,
> documentation.
>
> We're pretty close to reaching a conclusion on this. The
> fact is that even
> if we do nothing, people want this functionality, and they
> WILL implement
> it. It is in everybody's interest that we have a
> specification for what the
> functionality should be. It may change over time, but I
> think there has
> been enough back-and-forth that we have a reasonable first
> draft, and
> should vote on it.
>
> -Frank
> P.S. Of course, this message, along with version 1.7.1 of
> the RFC is
> attached to the bug on bugzilla
>
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