[Biojava-dev] The future of BioJava

[Richard Holland]

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Hi all.

We are considering moving on to start work on BioJava3, which will
resolve many of the issues of usability and maintainability that plague
the existing versions of BioJava.

I have set up a wiki page containing a preliminary outline of intentions:

http://biojava.org/wiki/BioJava3_Proposal

Please could as many people as possible update this page with your
comments, suggestions, ideas and changes.

We want to know what technologies or design patterns you feel would be
suitable for various parts, how the new code should be structured and
organised, what degree of modularisation would be appropriate, and where
the line between biological problems and more generalised Java or
programming problems should be drawn. Basically we want comments on
anything you can think of.

You should make your comments by directly modifying the page.

Please do be constructive - if something's a bad idea, we want to know
about it, but we'd appreciate it if you could also suggest a better
alternative. We're open to all suggestions and will consider everything.

We aim to use this page to flesh out a detailed plan for what should
happen next. I will act as moderator and use the contents of the final
page as the basis of a detailed plan of action early next year.

cheers,
Richard

PS. This is sent to biojava-dev. I'll send it also to biojava-l when
there are more details and clearer intentions, meaning users are less
likely to get scared. From biojava-l I'll ask for features that users
would like to see. This is likely to be around November time.
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