[Biojava-l] Preparation for a 1.1 release?

[Mark Schreiber]

Hi,

I have been keen to get into biojava for a while but I have been largely
staying with my own clases due to the lack of documentation on the biojava
API. Basically the only way to get into biojava at the moment is tospend
hours looking at the java docs and then comparing to the code to see how
things actually work (not that they nescessarily work differently from the
documentation its just that often the documentation doesn't tell you
enough about how they work).

Would it be a good idea if all future contributions to biojava be required
to meet a standard of documentation?

Mark

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Thomas Down wrote:

> Documentation: <insert horror movie theme tune here...>
> 
>    - The web-site tutorials are out of date.  I'll volunteer
>      to update the `symbols and symbollists' tutorial to include
>      the recent changes, and to write a new chapter on the newio
>      interfaces.
> 
>    - Does anyone have any comments about the current set of
>      tutorials?
> 
>    - More tutorials would be great.  In particular:
> 
>       + SequenceDBs
>       + The search packages (if we get this hooked up to BLAST and/or
>         FASTA).
>       + Distribution objects
>       + The dynamic programming toolkit.
> 
>     Anyone feel like honing their writing skills?
> 

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