Kepler Release Roadmap
STATUS
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Overview
Milestones, priorities, and meeting dates pertaining to the Kepler release.
Milestones and priorities
- DONE Alpha 5 February 25, 2005 (see the alpha5
bug list for a complete list)
- not many new features, primarily bug fixes and gui cleanup
- need to identify target bugs
- improved R support
- EcoGrid factory approach for queries
- not many new features, primarily bug fixes and gui cleanup
- DONE Alpha 6 April 15, 2005 (see the alpha6
bug list for a complete list)
- Improved R support, including interface description syntax for R
- DONE Alpha 7 July 10, 2005 (see the alpha7 bug list for a complete list)
- DONE Alpha 8 January 2, 2006 (see the alpha8 bug list for a complete list)
- .kar file support (critical)
- improved cache manager /object manager (critical)
- changing to use KAR for updating library pane (critical)
- get rid of existing annotations.xml and basicKeplerActorLibrary.xml
- fix startup time by not instantiating actors when reading for the library
- ability to save composite actors that are on canvas as KSW and they appear in library (critical)
- data access features (put/get) (critical)
- stability of data access code (critical)
- UI: icon and other cosmetic changes (not critical; probably can make it in alpha 8)
- DONE Alpha 9 March 6, 2006 (Feature freeze for release 1.0.0; this is a hard deadline) (see the alpha9 bug list for a complete list)
- Beta 1 Apr 28, 2006 (see the beta1
bug list for a complete list)
- Full documentation drafts (getting started, user guide, cookbooks, actor docs, faq)
- no new features beyond alpha9 but make sure they all work
- 1.0.0 May 19, 2006 (see the kepler-1.0.0 bug list for a complete list)
- Post 1.0.0 (see the Post-rel-1.0.0
bug list for a complete list)
- Semantics
- Logging and checkpointing
- nimrod director -- ease of use of batch grid systems
Meetings and dates of relevance to Kepler releases
- BEAM March 7-10, 2005 UC Davis
- SEEK Dev meeting May 1-6, 2005, Estes Park
- GEON All-hands May 2-5, 2005
- Kepler/Ptolemy Miniconference May 12, 2005 Berkeley, CA
- GEON NSF visit June 20, 2005
- SEEK annual report July 2005
- SDSC Summer CI Institute Aug 2005
- GEON CI Summer Institute Aug 15-20, 2005
- SEEK annual meeting Oct 24-29, 2005
- RCN training fall Oct 31-Nov 11, 2005
- SEEK new faculty training January 2006
- SEEK distributed graduate seminar Junauary 2006 potentaially