On Sun, 04 May 2003 23:32:53 +0800 "Serge Gregorio" wrote: > May I suggest the following courses of action for the next > few weeks? > > May June July > 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 > DESIGN > > Recruitment (ALL) *-----* > Formation of a > Design Committee *-* > Design Work *-----*-------* > 1st Draft * > Approve Final Design * > > DEVELOPMENT > > Interface with ext. *---------------------* > web servers (Sean) > (e.g. BLAST@NCBI) > Writing parsers *---------------------* > (Nico) > Miscellaneous code *---------------------* > c/o Serge > Study other BioXXX *---------------------* > to aid design (Greg) > Test/critique *---------------------* > existing code > (Andres, Frank, > other SF members) > > The design phase may appear to be too long for some, but this is > a long-term project (which hopefully will outlive us all) and > viewed in that context, two months isn't too big a deal. > > Also, the DEVELOPMENT that goes in parallel with DESIGN is meant > to fill the appetite of people more inclined to coding. We can > identify modules that could be written in a way that would be > easy to integrate into whatever final design is adopted by the > end of July. I vote to have such development focus on code that > interface with external data or applications (local or web-based) > because that seems to interest most of our potential users. > > What do you think? Good plan (and - in part - this is already happening). How will the design phase proceed? Do we take what you currently have as a starting plan? Also, I would not necessarily form a committee for the design, everyone where ho feels compelled to participate should be able to. Nico