Milestone OMERO-Beta4.3.2

At the planning meeting held June 17th, 2011 several topics were chosen and then refined as part of the "summer milestone" of refinement and investigation. During the July 28 meeting, which of the following would lead to deliverables needing concrete testing for 4.3.2 was discussed.

Deliverables

Work for deliverables must all provide related scenarios for proper testing before release.

Bio-Formats

• Support for a few new formats (#5004, #5146, #5161, #4169, #6013, #6096, #5916, #6219)
• Polishing of formats released in 4.3.0, primarily Volocity and cellSens VSI (#5114, #5396, #6159, #6279, #6280)
• Performance improvements (#6237, #6010, #5965)

OMERO.web

• Running Scripts (#6200)
• SPW improvement (#1684)
• Orphaned images (#5992)
• Tree improvement and bug fixes (#6005)
• Thumbnail bug fixes (#6116)
• Big image rendering adjustment and bug fixes (#6205, #6100)

Internal tasks / Infrastructure

• Finalized VM work (#2678)
• Improved LDAP synchronization (#6248, #6501)
• Various export fixes (#6520, #6701, #6713)
• Improving documentation and new developer training materials (#6380)
• Generally cleaning the backlog
• Hudson testing (#4329)

Specification

• Example File Generation (#3815)
• Schema Downgrade (#3819)
• Validation (#6156,#6157,#6309)

Documentation

• Web site restructuring (#5155, #5157)
• Review ome-xml.org page as moved (#2296)
• Example files section (#6308)

Investigations

Investigations take place on topic branches, most likely on the team git and will likely not be merged into "develop" for release.

Specification

• Unit Tests and Mocks (#3815) TABLED UNTIL AFTER 4.3.2

OMERO

• Exporting downgraded OME-TIFFs (#3809)
• User/admin configuration options (#4550)

OMERO.fs (req #2128)

• Original file binary repository overhaul (#909)
• JPEG 2000 follow-up (#6220) TABLED UNTIL AFTER 4.3.2
• Meeting schedule:
  • Initial planning (July 11th; Colin & Chris)
  • Josh returns synchronization (July 19th; Josh, Colin & Chris)
  • Jean-Marie returns synchronization (August 10th; Jean-Marie, Josh, Colin & Chris)
  • Tuesday meeting presentation (August 16th)
• 'Branches:'
  • team/features/909-Proposal (team) IDLE
  • features/909-Proposal2 (team) IN PROGRESS

Permissions (req #320)

• Recursive chmod/chown/chgrp etc. (#3532)

Patient/medical data (req #4625)

• FS-based auditing API (#4652)
• Creation of project view from a central dataset (#6320)
• Support for health data (#6344)
• 'Branches:'
  • silo (team) IN PROGRESS

Schema Development

• Final task of Model synchronisation, unification & evolution(#2821, #5112) (*only if schema release for another reason*)
• Support for SPIM data (#2730)
• Support for Health data (#6344)
• XSL transform support in Insight (#6167)

Other

• Educational use (#6166)
• Preferences (#4550)