[BioRuby] Restyling BioRuby.org

[Mic]

BioRuby must become faster in next generation sequence time.

Some of the mailing list member like D very much. How about BioD or BioGO
or BioVala instead of a BioRuby fork?

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Hilmar Lapp <hlapp at drycafe.net> wrote:

>
> On Feb 20, 2012, at 4:51 AM, Pjotr Prins wrote:
>
> > 4. One for you Hilmar: does the OBF actually encourage inertia in the
> Bio* projects?
>
> How would the OBF do that?
>
> In the present relationship between the OBF umbrella and its member
> projects, the OBF takes a completely hands-off approach with respect to how
> each of the member projects organize themselves. The OBF doesn't meddle in
> matters of its member project communities that concern the respective
> member project. As a consequence, the OBF by definition neither encourages
> nor discourages inertia in its member projects. Instead the OBF leaves it
> to each member project how inert or not they want to be.
>
> I think this is different, for better or worse, from the relationship
> between the Apache Foundation and Apache projects, and we've had some of
> that discussion (such as, is it better or worse) as a result of Ross
> Gardler's talk at BOSC a while ago. Personally, I am open to OBF changing
> the nature of that relationship, but I think the drive to do that would
> have to come with very broad community support that cuts across our
> projects, rather than top-down.
>
> >  It is appears to me that sitting leadership is reluctant to give away
> their positions.
>
> I'm not sure - I can imagine that Chris F would more than happily turn
> over release and other leadership to someone else if they stepped up. I
> think volunteers taking leadership and responsibility is fundamentally at
> odds with the loosey-goosey fork-patch-pull request micro-contribution
> model that reins supreme on Github. While that model has done lots of good
> in terms of lowering the barrier to contribution, we must not forget that
> taking leadership and responsibility is not a micro-contribution, and by
> nature not low-barrier. Hence, cultivating a large following of
> micro-contributors is by no means prone to give you an ample resource for
> future leadership.
>
> Sorry if that's not what you wanted to hear.
>
>        -hilmar
> --
> ===========================================================
> : Hilmar Lapp -:- Durham, NC -:- hlapp at drycafe dot net :
> ===========================================================
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> BioRuby Project - http://www.bioruby.org/
> BioRuby mailing list
> BioRuby at lists.open-bio.org
> http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bioruby
>