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The future of ACEDB

(Last major change: 24th October, 2003)

Introduction

These pages are an attempt to gather together lots of ideas that are floating around about how acedb might develop in the future. Consequently they are changed as new ideas emerge and existing ones are revised. The intention is that anyone should be able to contribute their ideas to how they think ACEDB should develop.

Your views are important, please send them to me, Ed Griffiths: edgrif@sanger.ac.uk and I will incorporate them into these pages.

The Future

Owing to the current financial climate, the AceDB Development Team has been slimmed from 3 to 2. Simon Kelley, stalwart of AceDB development for years, has moved to the Systems Group here at the Sanger Institute.

Obviously, our development plans have had to be radically changed and after discussions amongst ourselves and with internal users, we have decided to freeze development of the core AceDB code and concentrate on developing the new ZMap display, which will be a client/server version of FMap. There are a number of reasons for doing this and there will be further discussion of it in newsletters which will appear from time to time.

Some of the obvious changes are these:

• Bugs :

  Will be fixed when necessary or time allows. Clearly, major bugs will have to be addressed as promptly as possible.

• Builds :

  There will no longer be a regular monthly build cycle. Builds will take place when significant bugs have been fixed or new features added. These will be Un*x and Mac builds only. Windows support will be dropped.

• Support:

  With no significant development going on, there is no point having a newsletter or regular user group meetings, so these will occur when it seems appropriate. We will continue to try to respond to users questions in the newsgroup and via email.

This probably all sounds a bit draconian and bleak but realistically we had more than we could manage with 3 of us and with 2 of us this will be even more so. The choice is really between making progress or falling into a purely bug-fixing, support role.

Last Modified 24-Oct-2003, 10:15 AM	webmaster@acedb.org