ROADMAP.md

RoadMap

• Implement ratio calculation of ages
• Implement offline workspace
• Deprecate RPC? move to one communication mechanism.
• use zeromq for all sockets
• Improve installation and cross-platform configuration UX
  • add pychron-doctor environment and configuration diagnostics
  • add pychron-bootstrap first-run setup/bootstrap command
  • add a first-run setup wizard for GUI users
  • ship versioned starter configuration bundles by workflow
  • split dependencies into clearer install profiles/extras
  • maintain supported installer/launcher paths per OS
  • validate environment and config at startup with actionable errors
  • support export/import of site configuration bundles
• Improve pipeline and plotting responsiveness/maintainability
  • remove runtime debug prints from active pipeline/plotting code paths
  • normalize plot editor refresh/rebuild signaling
  • reduce unnecessary figure panel rebuilds
  • centralize plot background/theme defaults
  • move demo/sandbox plotting code out of importable runtime modules
  • tighten broad exception handling in plotting/refresh code
• Improve NGX intensity acquisition reliability
  • refactor NGXSpectrometer.read_intensities() into explicit acquisition-state and parse helpers
  • validate #EVENT:ACQ / #EVENT:ACQ.B payloads before indexing or converting
  • replace fixed post-trigger sleeps with timeout-aware event waiting
  • separate command-response handling from acquisition event consumption
  • make NGX read timeouts scale with integration time
  • replace implicit detector ordering assumptions with explicit payload-to-detector mapping
  • add NGX-specific stale-acquisition detection based on event progression
  • remove legacy debug/locking leftovers from the NGX read path
  • add transcript-style tests for normal, malformed, timeout, and cancel cases
• Improve experiment editor and executor coordination
  • centralize active editor/queue synchronization in the executor
  • make editor-driven queue mutations refresh stats/table/info immediately
  • consolidate queue-changed handling in the experiment factory
  • reduce stale selected-run/editor state when switching experiment tabs
  • add focused regression tests for executor/factory queue synchronization
• Improve regression graph and regressor performance/reliability
  • avoid unnecessary regression recalculation when scatter data and exclusions are unchanged
  • avoid unconditional regression-graph relayout/redraw work on no-op updates
  • clear regressor dirty state deterministically after successful or failed fits
  • tighten broad exception handling in regression graph updates
  • add focused tests for regressor state reuse and dirty tracking
• Improve analysis/isotope model and view responsiveness
  • reuse isotope regressors unless grouping/filter/fit state actually changes
  • stop rebuilding analysis view tabs and value tables unnecessarily
  • prevent repeated isotope-evolution grouping listeners from accumulating
  • replace broad exception/print handling in analysis view sync paths
  • add focused tests for main-view value reuse and isotope invalidation
• Make experiment analysis execution state explicit
  • introduce an event-driven automated-run state machine
  • route collector/run/executor transitions through a shared transition API
  • record transition source/reason metadata for debugging and operator support
  • replace direct state mutation in queue validation/reset paths
  • add focused tests for event-driven transitions and transition metadata
• Improve core reliability and maintenance hygiene
  • fix Python 3 persistence serialization/deserialization paths to use binary-safe I/O
  • replace Git host stdout error reporting with structured logging and actionable failures
  • remove remaining runtime debug prints from active regression/interpolation code paths
  • narrow broad exception handling in persistence and Git host runtime code
  • add focused regression coverage for persistence helpers where dependencies allow

v3.0.0

• Pipeline
• DVC

v2.1.0

• major experiment versioon
• first release used outside of NMGRL

v2.0.6

• Improve labspy
• irradiation/labnumber entry
• Automated run monitor
• auto mftable (Low priority)
• add logger pane to Experiment, Spectrometer, ExtractionLine tasks.
• add logger pane to AnalysisEdit tasks (?)
• add analysis labnumber editing capabilities. See Issue #480.

v2.0.5

• Conditionals Editing

More testing

• Whiff/Sniff
• Labspy
• LabBook
• Gitified Directories
• Run block editing