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About this Document
This is an official Request for Comment (RFC) for "improving the quality of the Cytoscape 2.3 release."
RFC 2 is divided in two parts:
- Part I consists of Ethan's interviews with six Cytoscapers (Trey, Gary, Ben, Allan, Aditya, and Rowan). I had hoped to interview more people before the Cytoscape retreat, but unfortunately didn't have time to get to everybody. In Part I, I have done my best to paraphrase people's comments, and I have not indicidated who said what.
- Part II consists of ideas which were culled from Ethan's interviews, and are now presented as concrete proposals to the larger group.
Status
This document is under construction.
Part I: The Interviews
Q1: What do you feel about the quality of the 2.2 release?
Cytosaper #1:
"We pushed the release date out too much. We should have coordinated our efforts much earlier; we probably could have done something by August. We could have done a much better job if we had coordinated earlier on. I think this compromised the quality of the chosen feature set. Next time, we need to decide the feature set straight away. Then, do design and implementation in the next 2-3 months, so that we can do a real six month release cycle."
"Feature set was based on developer interests, not really based on user's feedback. We need a better mechanism to get more feedback from real users."
Part II: The Recommendations
Under Construction