[Biojava-dev] [Fwd: BioJava 3 Proposal]

[Richard Holland]

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Hi all. I'm planning on opening this wiki page to the general public
(ie. biojava-l) on Monday next week (Oct 29th). The email that will
accompany the public announcement is shown below.

If you'd like to review it and add any further comments or suggestions
before everyone else gets to see it, please make those changes before
this coming weekend is over!

The page will be made visible as-is, and will be left open for public
comment until January when I will distribute a summary of its contents
and start work on a plan of action.

cheers,
Richard

Here is the email that will be sent out on Monday:

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Dear BioJava users,

The BioJava developers are considering options for the future
development of the BioJava toolkit. We consider that it needs
improvement in a few major areas to make it easier to use and
understand, and also faster and more scalable.

The options are to either rewrite large parts of the existing code,
working within the existing interfaces and paradigms, or to develop a
new set of BioJava packages from the ground up in order to take
advantage of lessons learned from the design patterns of the existing code.

The BioJava developers have spent the last couple of months discussing
ideas and proposals related to these options on a Wiki page, and would
now like to open this discussion to all users of BioJava and the
bioinformatics community in general. We would like to invite anyone who
has any ideas or suggestions to contribute these to the Wiki page,
and/or to comment on the ideas and suggestions that have already been
posted there.

Here is a link to the Wiki page, and also a link to the associated Talk
page where much of the discussion has taken place so far:

	http://biojava.org/wiki/BioJava3_Proposal
	http://biojava.org/wiki/Talk:BioJava3_Proposal

It is our intention to leave the discussion open until early January
2008 when we will summarise it and use it as the basis of a plan of
action. We will then distribute the summary and the action plan via the
BioJava website.

We look forward to hearing your comments and ideas. Please do remember
to make them directly to the Wiki page so that they are preserved in
context, making it easier for us to summarise them later!

cheers,
Richard
(on behalf of all BioJava developers)
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