[Biojava-dev] biojava 3.0 release plan

[Mark Schreiber]

Hi Andreas -

Excellent work from the team this year.

I would recommend removing as much legacy code as possible and removing
(preferably rewriting) the legacy documentation. I think it would be better
to have no docs than out of date docs.

- Mark

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Andreas Prlic <andreas at sdsc.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> BioJava 3 has matured massively in SVN during this year and it is time to
> prepare a first release. I propose the following release plan. See also two
> other topics for discussion below.
>
> Release Plan 3.0
>
> * Alpha release build(s)
>  during the next days I will start to provide a first alpha release build.
> This will be followed by semi-regular follow up alpha builds (depending on
> SVN activity)
>
> - During the next weeks any missing features should be committed to SVN.
>  Refactoring of code can still be done during this time.
> - Add and update documentation in wiki
> - Module maintainers: check compile warnings for your modules in automated
> builds. Make sure no compile warnings are being displayed.
>
>
> * Beta release build(s)
>  the first beta release is scheduled for the weekend Nov 21st.
>
> - From this point on only minor changes (bug fixes) should be added to the
> code base
> - Module maintainers: check and update javadoc for your modules
>
> * Release 3.0
>  The 3.0 Release is scheduled for Dez 12th
>
>
> There are two things we should still discuss:
>
> * backwards compatibility:
> the current "core" module contains tons of legacy 1.7 code. Shall I go
> ahead
> and delete this module?
>
> * documentation:
> The wiki contains tons of documentation for 1.7 which will not be useful
> for
> 3.0. As a procedure for cleaning this up and avoiding confusion I suggest
> to
> move all 1.7 related docu into a special section of the wiki. All toplevel
> links to documentation should point to 3.0. Any other suggestions?
>
>
> Andreas
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