MSnbase dev call - 20190308

[lgatto]

After our 1st dev call last month, here's a preliminary agenda for the next one, scheduled for the 8 March 2019.

• Latest updates on the Backend development - @jotsetung and @sgibb
• Discussion on infrastructure plan (see Assays in MSnExperiments #444) - @lgatto
• Promoting MSnbase infrastructure rather then low-level mzR - @lgatto
• Reducing dependencies (see also speed up package load time #201). Would it be worth splitting the package in raw and quantitative features?

Feel free to add any discussion points here or ask me to add them on slack.

[lgatto]

Short write-up:

• Not sure that splitting the package would make a big difference. There might be some opportunity to reduce the number of dependencies, but probably not that much. Let's see where we stand with the future developments.

• Actions to promote MSnbase and invite other developers to use it instead of mzR for raw data

  • Mention MSnbase in mzR's DESCRIPTION file, manual pages and vignette.
  • Publish new MSnbase infrastructure.
  • Disseminate the message with Martin Morgan/Bioc-core and bioc-devel.

• The Backend class is close to ready.

• See Assays in MSnExperiments #444 for summary on the experiment/spectra/assay discussion.

• Follow-up: how to read data in: constructors, readMSnData, ... which objects?

Next: to be determined, possibly next week to finalise the experiment design discussion and the follow-up point.

[lgatto]

Thank you @sgibb and @jotsetung for the call!