SDE package proposal results: passed!

[Lucian Smith]

Hello, everyone!  With eleven votes, the SDE package has passed, so we will formally create a package working group, and continue work on the specification itself.  Just to remind people:  none of the issues that have been brought up are considered to be completely resolved.  Rather, it has been determined that in general, SBML should have a package covering this topic, the details of which will be hashed out in the package working group, before being approved by the SBML editors.  Resolving those issues will be an important part of this development process.

Here's the breakdown of the results.  The overall vote was 9 to accept the proposal, one to revise, and one abstention:

For the individual components, the assessment of the package's utility was 10 'Agree' and one abstention:

'Biological Orientation' was the most controversial, with 7 agrees, 1 disagree, one 'insufficient information', and two abstentions:

Orthogonality was similar to utility:  10 'Agree' and one abstention:

So, as the package working group works on the package, it's clear that selling the 'biological orientation' will be an important part to include in the spec.

Thank you to everyone who voted!

-Lucian Smith

on behalf of the SBML Editors