Re: [Bioc-devel] msa: call for help/support

2020-08-11 Thread Hervé Pagès
Hi Ulrich, Also if supporting your package on Windows turns out to be too much of a burden we can always mark it as unsupported on this platform. Still better than giving up on the package. Cheers, H. On 8/11/20 08:21, Ulrich Bodenhofer wrote: Hi Martin, Thanks for your open words! We

Re: [Bioc-devel] msa: call for help/support

2020-08-11 Thread Ulrich Bodenhofer
Hi Martin, Thanks for your open words! We understand the situation and accept your / the core team's decision. Yes, we will ask the community for help. Even if nobody volunteers, we will not give up our package too easily. Currently, there is only one error in an example on the Windows

Re: [Bioc-devel] msa: call for help/support

2020-08-10 Thread Martin Morgan
Hi Ulrich -- Certainly msa provides very useful functionality not present in other Bioconductor packages. It's not possible for the Bioconductor core team to take on additional maintenance responsibilities; the best bet is to find someone else in the community willing and able to maintain

[Bioc-devel] msa: call for help/support

2020-07-28 Thread Ulrich Bodenhofer
Dear Lori, dear Martin, dear Hervé, [I am mentioning you personally, since you are the Core Team members I had personal contact with in the past] dear Bioconductor Core Team, This is an open letter to you and the Bioconductor community ... my letter concerns the 'msa' package of which I am