Development Roadmap

UI Upgrades

• Replace record/audio "drawers" with separate modules
• Create a full-screen visualizer for the Channel Map module
• Implement copy/paste for processors
  
  

Plugins

Short-term:

• Set up central repository for user-contributed plugins
• Integrate plugin browsing and installation into the GUI itself
• Get plugin generator working across Mac, Linux, and Windows
• Refine methods for automatic parameter editor generation

Matlab/Python/Julia integration

Short-term:

• Refine Python plugin and add documentation and tutorials (current project of Clayton Barnes)
• Refine Julia plugin and add documentation and tutorials
• Create a plugin that be programmed using Matlab
  
  

Networking

Longer-term:

• Create a Network Streaming modules that can be used to send data between GUI instances, or to other software
  
  

Backend

Short term:

• Allow data to pass through Sinks
• Optionally allow waveforms from spike events to reduce inter-plugin transmission bandwidth

• Add channel depth metadata, to facilitate more intuitive visualization

Testing

Short term:

• Set up continuous integration 
• Create a standard battery of tests to run prior to each release
• Choose a testing framework and start building unit tests for individual methods
  
  

Data format

Short term:

• Make the File Reader compatible with Open Ephys, Binary, and NWB format
• Update the NWB format to be compatible with the 2.0 specification