Release Preparation

This page collects dates and tasks for the upcoming release

Release 1.8

Dates

• Feature-Freeze: '''03.02.2011'''
• Branch: '''04.02.2011''' (Chris)
• Release: '''06.03.2011'''

Tasks

General

• Review CHANGELOG
• prepare packages
• reduce checker warnings
• review Trac Tickets https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/open-ms/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=accepted&status=reopened&group=status&milestone=Release+1.8

Testing

• Simulator
• Id-View
• TOPPAS in TOPPView
• external tool support
• alignment-trafo Entkopplun

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Release 1.7

Dates

• Feature Freeze: '''01.08.2010'''
• Release branching: '''04.08.2010''' (only branch when CDash is clean? since Monday its a mess)
• Release candidate: '''15.08.2010'''
• Testing, package building: '''15.08.2010''' - '''31.08.2010'''
• Release of (source+binaries): '''31.08.2010'''

Tasks

• coordinator in Tübingen: Mathias

• review TOPP docu (Mathias assigns each developer some tools; ideas on what is missing can be collected here)

• test installers on multiple machines/setups. Check all tests, but also the tools, including working thrhough the tutorials

• TOPPAS tutorial (Hannes?)

• TOPPAS workflow collection (bring them to the Retreat, we'll upload them on openms.de afterwards)

• Each example workflow should also come with 1-3 example data sets -- real life datasets obtained from our exptl. collaborators [example pipelines/data from Dortmund workshop, Lars]

• Make sure database search engines are included in the binary (Win/Mac) distributions so people can use them out of the box.

  • Are we even allowed to do that? (license?)
  • this is only of limited usage for OMSSA, as the user needs to format the DB with BLAST beforehand.
  • Can we also find a solution for package-based installation under Linux (are there linux packages for X!T, OMSSA?)

• What is the status of the generic TOPP tool?

  • GenericWrapper? Works just nicely. Currently used for wrapping Proteowizard's msconvert.
  • We should either
    • add specialized versions of GenericWrapper to the list of TOPP tools in TOPPAS (extendable via a config file)
      • advantage: we distribute new wrappers to users, just by sending a config file
    • type GenericWrapper (-type msconvert, -type ..., -type user_defined)
      • advantage: also usable in non-TOPPAS workflows, but new types require a new OpenMS

• revise TOPP (optional withdrawal: sequest/inspect adapters; optional replacement crux??)

• remove/hide entire tools [ #171 Chris]

  • candidates (Developer vote):
    • SequestAdapter[optional replacement crux??] (Chris, Mathias)
  • no candidates:
    • InspectAdapter (Chris [tested and works,Win64 [7155] ])

• remove/hide deprecated algorithms (such as in FeatureFinder, FeatureLinker, ConsensusID, ...) [ #152 Hendrik]

  • candidates (Developer vote):
    • FeatureFinder:
      • "simple" (name)
      • "simplest" (name)
    • FeatureLinker:
      • "identification" (name)
  • no candidates:
  • vote will be merged into ticket [ #152 Hendrik] at 10. August

• rework TOPPView data management [ #100 Timo]

• see http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/open-ms/wiki/UpcomingRelease

TOPP tool docu revision

• what should be contained in every TOPP/UTIL tool:
  • possible Predecessor and Successor tools (e.g. FeatureFinder should say: PeakPicker before (for centroided FF) and MapAligner, IDMapper after)
  • ...
• look at parameter documentation.
  • is the description explanatory or does it just rephrase the parameter name (NOT HELPFUL!)
  • is the name appropriate? Should the name be in a subcategory (useful for specific sub-settings, e.g. :, see IDFilter as an example)
• Provide docu in the tutorial about saving and executing pipelines from the command line
• Provide limited assistence for identification-engine install (i.e. link out to OMSSA and X!Tandem)