The first publicly announced OMERO/Shoola Package

Major new functionality:

• Installers
• Feedback system
• Completion of bug fixing for rendering, server, and client

This beta will be announced by email to those who have expressed an interest in OMERO/Shoola (note some renaming is likely).

Developers List for Beta1 Release:

• too many open files (file handle garbage collection) fix (finally)
• importer must be moved into the build system (Brian)
• expert analysis of the Shoola and Importer UI (David)
• some minor functionality changes will be added to the thumbnail browser (Brian/Jean-Marie/Donald)
  • tabbing order needs fixing in shoola (fix tabbing in the browser's tree view)
  • some minor look and feel tweaks
• big endian and off by one errors (Brian)
• server installer (Chris/Brian/Donald/Jean-Marie)
• (Jean-Marie: please fix debug box size on the shoola client)
• feedback mechanism (Brian/Donald)
• too many open files (Chris)
• User Admin system (Brian/Donald/Chris)
• Need to add jar hash signatures and version error trapping (Josh/Jean-Marie/Brian/Donald)
• remove archiving button from importer till beta 2 (Brian)
• adding acquisition date to the file, original file path, etc. (Josh/Jean-Marie)
• displaying the remaining free disk space (Jean-Marie)
• add functionality to server so you can move the ome repository to a different location (Chris/Josh)
• sanity check the server from the admin tool (Donald)
• handle the first time loading postgres error in shoola (seems OK with importer) (Josh/Jean-Marie)
• (Brian/Josh: change the OriginalFile?.size from Int to Long)
• Beta1 installation testing
  • Laptop single install
  • Vanilla Linux install
  • Vanilla Mac OS X install
• Confirm that there are no outstanding blocking tickets for dependencies (Josh)
• Test server/client build with Derby/HSQLdB and VM bundle for turnkey solution (Chris)
  • If we offer this, how do we handle database migration
• Registry system to track omero starts/stops/installs/etc (Brian)

Non-Developer list:

• release strategy statement. Who its being released too, etc. (Jason)
• redo the openmicroscopy.org website to make it more of a portal (Jason/Brian spearheading*meeting next week)
• community page / forums for feedback
• Customer support: Buy server. PHPBB, etc.*icons, branding, etc. Naming, release numbering, etc.
• Tracking downloads and feedback
• documentation (David/Brian)
• Tiki updates (Josh) and synchronization with Shoola "build" doc system (Jean-Marie)
• Javadoc (Chris/Josh)

Usable Image List:

Beta1 Tickets:

• Expert Walkthrough / Heuristics (David)
• Help System (PF/DS/BL)
• Paper Prototyping Workshop (DS/PF)
• Logo design (Andrew Cook)

UI Jobs:

• Video output and upload (General populate UI website) (Catriona)
• Use Case writing (and gather and reformat OMERO UCs: NB consider where to store this stuff) (David)
• Scenario writing & workflow mapping (Catriona)
• Persona writing (Paula)

Post Beta1:

• Feedback Analysis and reporting (Paula)
• Visualization research (David)
• Collaborative working / Ontologies research (Catriona)