[Bioperl-l] writing bioperl modules

[Jay Hannah]

On Nov 26, 2008, at 5:30 AM, Tim wrote:
> I'm just curious to know if bioperl is considered complete or are  
> there still projects that programmers can become involved in.

I think everything is open for enhancement. "Patches welcome."  :)

> I notice that for other bio-languages there are on-going hackathons  
> were programmers can meet and work on a problem. Do these exist in  
> bio-perl or is the code base now mature?

"Mature" is probably a good label for most of the code base. I'm not  
aware of any face-to-face hackathon events. Joining us in our quiet  
IRC channel

    http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Irc

and discussing your ideas on this mailing list should be pretty  
interactive.

The 1.6 release push is underway. You could help with that:

    http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Talk:Release_1.6

HTH,

Jay Hannah
http://clab.ist.unomaha.edu/CLAB/index.php/User:Jhannah