Milestone OMERO-Beta4.1

This roadmap was significantly reworked during the Paris May 2009 Users' meeting. Overarching notes are available for reference are available here.

4.1 was originally planned as a quick release post-4.0 to solidify the server especially to prepare for a later release (4.2) focusing on high-content analysis. The focus shifted during the users' meeting to solving the Data-in/-out/-duplication issues which have kept several sites from adopting OMERO.

• Data-in
  • A comprehensive collection of testing files used across the project
  • Eased user upload of broken files
  • Better transparency in the testing framework
  • A minimal import ("compatibility mode") for broken formats
  • Support for re-import

• Data-out & duplication
  • Support export of OME-TIFF
  • Enable OMERO.fs to read directly from files on mounted systems

• File formats
  • Breaking down the mismatch between Bio-Formats supported and OMERO supported formats
  • Support for INCELL, PE/FLEX, and maybe MDS and ArrayScan?
  • Provide examples of OME writers like OME-TIFF export

• Cleanup tasks
  • Conversion from internal DSL to OME-XSD based code-generation
  • Automating build system (w/ creation of .app and .exe, branching & tagging)
  • Adding a UNIQUE for Image/Pixels?

Mini-milestones

• Re-worked and more accessible web site (June 1st)
• Multi-site OMERO.fs test collaboration (August 15th)