[Biojava-dev] biojava 4 release planning

[Jose Manuel Duarte]

To me 1 month sounds a bit early. In any case to go with the "release 
early, release often" philosophy, we can really try to push it soon, say 
in a couple of months.

What about setting a target date of December (before the 15th)? I think 
that can be helpful for everyone involved to get ready for it.

The milestone 4.0 in github doesn't show so much:

https://github.com/biojava/biojava/milestones/BioJava%204.0.0

But I think some other things are missing there, for instance 
nice-to-haves in the structure module would be: improving structure 
alignments (#126), reorganising symmetry code, finish secondary 
structure implementation (#112)... All of these are of course optional, 
they can always be pushed back if we can't reach them on time.

As for core and other modules I really have no clue. It would be nice if 
someone can say if there are plans to add new features there.

An important issue we should really address is eliminating the biojava3 
naming that some packages now have. The reason behind those names is 
apparently keeping compatibility with biojava legacy, but by now we can 
probably do without that. I'd say simply eliminating the 3 would do the 
trick. Otherwise take an approach like blast where they kept a blast+ 
and a blast legacy. I'd favour simply eliminating the 3, it should help 
to keep it simple.

Jose



On 09/10/14 00:11, Andreas Prlic wrote:
> Hi
>
> The upcoming new biojava 4 series has mad a lot of progress recently. 
> How do people feel about trying to release BioJava 4.0.0 in about a 
> month?
>
> Andreas
>
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