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Kepler Release Roadmap

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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
  • 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 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

 

 

  • 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
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