[Connotea-code-devel] development questions

[Andrew S. <as...@gn...>]

Hello,

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I've been lurking on both the connotea mailing lists for a while now and
I thought I'd pose a basic question...  Is there a public plan for
future connotea development?  I think it's great that the code is open
source, but it appears that coding is still being primarily done by
Nature and NeoReality folks (not sure if the latest enhancements are
posted to sourceforge though).  Is there a desire to open up the
development team to include other developers who want to see connotea
mature faster?  I've been helping to explore thesis project ideas for a
couple bioinformatics masters students, and collaborating on connotea
may be an interesting prospect. =20

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And on another note, does anyone have a good feeling for the reasons why
connotea is not being used more?  Of course, I'm asking this question
not knowing anything about usage statistics, only that I don't know
anyone personally (myself included) that uses it in production.  My
reason?  What someone referred to as Buggotea
(http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/03/30/so_connotea_or_citeulike), which
really hinders the social aspect of the site. =20

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Any thoughts appreciated...

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Cheers,

-andrew