[Biophp-dev] Action plan proposal

[biophp-dev@bioinformatics.org]

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