[kepler-dev] planned kepler-1.0.0alpha5 release

[Shawn Bowers]

Bertram,

I think these kind of additions would be good ... and the underlying 
code to do them exists (except for the ontology editing part; unless you 
just expose it as a text file). What doesn't exist are the gui 
components -- and some may require underlying changes to the ptolemy 
code itself.  I believe Chad is working on some of these issues right now.

On another note, we talked a bit on IRC a few days ago about some of the 
needed infrastructure within kepler to handle these changes.  One 
problem is that the only way to make an annotation, ontology change, or 
any other configuration in Kepler "last" is by checking in the changes 
to cvs.  This somewhat limits customization ... and is a larger issue 
that needs to be addressed.  Matt suggested using their approach in 
Morpho which involves copying files at startup, etc., which may be one 
way to do it.

Shawn



Bertram Ludaescher wrote:
> Hi Matt:
> 
> A related question: I remember that at some point some Ptolemy actors
> were hidden (or otherwise disappeared from the Kepler actor tab). I
> assume they are still part of the Kepler distribution though, right?
> 
> Also: What are the plans for being able to edit actor annotations?
> (currently they seem to be "pseudo-hardwired", i.e., via some OWL-ishe
> files). As simple text-based form (just like the one for configuring
> ports or in fact one that links into that one) might do.
> 
> The ontology itself should be just a config file that can be changed
> via "Preferences" / "Options"..
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> Bertram
> 
> Matt Jones writes:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > On our roadmap that we developed at the last Kepler meeting we said we 
>  > would try for an alpha 5 release by Feb 21 (see 
>  > http://kepler-project.org/Wiki.jsp?page=KeplerReleaseRoadmap&version=1). 
>  >   That hasn't happened but is probably still useful.  I talked with Dan 
>  > today, and we thought it would be good to go ahead with a release to try 
>  > to get some of the bug fixes and improvements that we've completed now 
>  > out there in a more accessible format.  So Dan is planning on pulling 
>  > the CVS HEAD on Friday Feb 25 and creating the alpha5 installers then. 
>  > If you have anything you want included in this release, please check it 
>  > into CVS by Thursday the 24th, and please try not to check in any 
>  > experimental code that is likely to break the trunk (use a branch instead).
>  > 
>  > A revised roadmap is here:
>  > 
>  > http://kepler-project.org/Wiki.jsp?page=KeplerReleaseRoadmap
>  > 
>  > The main differences from the previous roadmap version are that: 1) the 
>  > documentation framework isn't complete so has been moved to alpha6, and 
>  > 2) the R improvements are ongoing and so have been extended to alpha6. I 
>  > also added links to the bug lists for each milestone.  The alpha 6 
>  > release is slated for April 15th, 2005 (just prior to the SEEK and GEON 
>  > meetings and the Ptolemy/Kepler miniconference), and I think we should 
>  > try hard to make that deadline.
>  > 
>  > Cheers,
>  > Matt
>  > 
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