Hi Andreas - Excellent work from the team this year.
I would recommend removing as much legacy code as possible and removing (preferably rewriting) the legacy documentation. I think it would be better to have no docs than out of date docs. - Mark On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Andreas Prlic <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > BioJava 3 has matured massively in SVN during this year and it is time to > prepare a first release. I propose the following release plan. See also two > other topics for discussion below. > > Release Plan 3.0 > > * Alpha release build(s) > during the next days I will start to provide a first alpha release build. > This will be followed by semi-regular follow up alpha builds (depending on > SVN activity) > > - During the next weeks any missing features should be committed to SVN. > Refactoring of code can still be done during this time. > - Add and update documentation in wiki > - Module maintainers: check compile warnings for your modules in automated > builds. Make sure no compile warnings are being displayed. > > > * Beta release build(s) > the first beta release is scheduled for the weekend Nov 21st. > > - From this point on only minor changes (bug fixes) should be added to the > code base > - Module maintainers: check and update javadoc for your modules > > * Release 3.0 > The 3.0 Release is scheduled for Dez 12th > > > There are two things we should still discuss: > > * backwards compatibility: > the current "core" module contains tons of legacy 1.7 code. Shall I go > ahead > and delete this module? > > * documentation: > The wiki contains tons of documentation for 1.7 which will not be useful > for > 3.0. As a procedure for cleaning this up and avoiding confusion I suggest > to > move all 1.7 related docu into a special section of the wiki. All toplevel > links to documentation should point to 3.0. Any other suggestions? > > > Andreas > _______________________________________________ > biojava-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-dev > _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
