[Biojava-dev] Brainstorming feature requests

[Paolo Bizzarri]

I am all in favour of that.

Ideally, you guys could make small items that you would like to progress,
each with his priority and complexity.

This would give a very good starting point for people - like me - that
would like to contribute to the project but that have little knowledge of
Biojava and bioinformatics in general.

Great idea anyway.

Regards

PaoloB


On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Spencer Bliven <sbliven at ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> The recent thread on the dev list about participating in BioJava made me
> realize that our list of feature requests is pretty sparse and
> disorganized. In the current state of things, I think we are missing out on
> getting contributions from new developers who want to help but don't know
> where to start. The github
> issues<https://github.com/biojava/biojava/issues>consist mostly of
> very technical bugs best fixed by the developer who wrote
> the code, and the wiki
> page<http://biojava.org/wiki/BioJava3_Feature_Requests>is short,
> general, and hasn't been updated in a while.
>
> Let's brainstorm some more feature requests. Where are the holes in our
> API? Are there any algorithms that would be useful to have in Java? I know
> that I have a list of features which I plan to implement "some day" but
> never bothered to write down anywhere. Let's add all those ideas to github,
> so that potential contributors or potential summer of code students can get
> some ideas. I'll start by creating issues for the current feature requests.
>
> -Spencer
>
> P.S. Should we use the 'enhancement' or 'new feature' label on github for
> feature requests? They are used inconsistently right now.
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