<div><div><div>Hi everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>Each week, the ImageJ developer team has a meeting to discuss our ticket status and organization for remaining tasks. At today's meeting, for reasons of focus as well as timing, we decided to add a sixth beta release in mid-November.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The theme/focus of each remaining beta is:</div><div> beta4: plugins</div><div> beta5: image data</div><div> beta6: ROIs</div><div><br></div><div>We have reprioritized our tickets according to these themes, with "critical" priority tickets reflecting what is necessary for the theme, "major" reflecting work that would benefit the theme substantially, and "minor" reserved for work that is tangential or would be nice but is not necessary for the theme.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Beta4 will solidify the plugin framework as much as possible. Progress on that on my front has been good last week, and I hope will continue into this week. Beta4 will also improve the support for legacy plugins—Barry fixed some bugs there in the past few days, with more to come. Johannes is working on two things: 1) subtractive ROIs, which we need for full legacy support of ROI-centric plugins such as Make Inverse; and 2) the scripting engine & editor, which is currently the biggest missing piece of ImageJ2's extensibility framework.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Beta5 will focus on better support for multidimensional image data. It will include more transparent support for extremely large images, so that File > Open "just works" rather than needing to worry about "virtual stacks" etc. It may not include a tiling engine but that can wait till post 2.0.0 final. Beta5 will also include support for multiple data objects in the same display, and/or visualizing the same data object using multiple display mechanisms. We theoretically already support this under the hood, but need to expose some UI to let users take advantage of it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Beta6 will include many improvements and bugfixes to ROIs. For details there, see <a href="http://trac.imagej.net/ticket/285">http://trac.imagej.net/ticket/285</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>The current active ticket breakdown by milestone and owner is:</div>
<div><br></div><div>beta4: 204 (aivar 6, bdezonia 100, curtis 77, dscho 21)</div><div>beta5: 84 (aivar 4, bdezonia 31, curtis 45, dscho 4)</div><div>beta6: 41 (aivar 0, bdezonia 31, curtis 4, dscho 5, leek 1)</div><div>final: 71 (aivar 3, bdezonia 25, curtis 39, dscho 4)</div>
<div><br></div><div>For further details, see:</div><div> <a href="http://trac.imagej.net/roadmap">http://trac.imagej.net/roadmap</a></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Curtis</div></div></div><div><br></div>