[BioRuby] Proposal: Bioruby modules (the bazaar)

[Jan Aerts]

Hear, hear... Exactly my feelings as well.

j.

2010/1/21 Yannick Wurm <yannick.wurm at unil.ch>

> On 21 Jan 2010, at 18:00, bioruby-request at lists.open-bio.org wrote:
>
> > re we really sure you want to reject this code just because it does
> > not live up to everyone's current and future expectations? It may
> > still be useful to someone else, you know, it does not break anything
> > else, and can be improved in the future. Once we decide what we want
> > to achieve.
>
> >
> > What hurts me now is that no one is going to use my code, since I
> > don't have the time to make it perfect, and it is hidden in my
> > experimental Bioruby branches. We should find a way to make
> > 'experimental code' available to the rest of the community. That way
> > we may also 'recruit' help to make the code more perfect.
>
>
> I agree 100% that enthusiastic bioruby improvements like Pjotr's should be
> encouraged & given maximal visibility.
> It's better to have great tools with room for improvement than no tools.
> (a year or two ago I needed colored html alignments and ended up with an
> ugly, ugly hack that used t_coffee to generate html output from the
> alignments I'd generated elsewhere - something like Pjotr's code would have
> been much more elegant)
>
> I also have the feeling that code contributions in general are given more
> negative than positive feedback on this list. I believe it's a grave mistake
> because the bioruby community will not grow without passionate users &
> contibutors and more quality code.
>
> just my two cents,
>
> yannick
>
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