Priority Projects

[ChrisJohnNOAA]

This is subject to change. Priorities will shift and new projects will be added over time. This is roughly in priority order, but not a strict ordering. Also some projects will take a very long time and so will likely be done slowly over time.

• Improve the ERDDAP developer experience
  • Update documentation to be in line with modern open source project expectations.
  • Improve testing
    • Enable more of the tests (there's currently still many disabled for a variety of reasons)
    • Reduce the data needed for tests and/or create a set of tests that needs minimal data
  • Automate build (WAR) creation and make it available
• Detect Issues
  • Improve logging, either making processed logs available publicly, or an integration like Sentry to aid in detecting problems.
  • Metrics in Prometheus. Add additional metrics (like those on the status page/daily email).
• Improve the admin experience
  • Make ERDDAP easier to run and configure, including but not limited to official support for containers/Kubernetes
  • Official Docker support
    • Add support to know host URL based on headers
  • Relative URLs #96
  • Improved S3 support to the Priority Projects
    • Overly restrictive S3 limitations #107
    • S3 Support #95
  • Identify pain points in admin workflows and improve them
• Support the interests of those supplying data
  • Submit ideas for this section!
• Improve the user experience
  • How to request a protected dataset from a script ? #92
• Technical Debt
  • Make it easier to add new export formats without needing to touch so many code locations.
  • Migrate away from hardcoded paths to using Java Resources
  • Provide better support for adding dataset types (possibly without needing to modify main code base) - still need a solution for the GenerateDatasets half of this
  • Separate helper utilities to their own build targets
  • Better handle standalone tools embedded in the codebase (NetCheck, GenerateDatasets, ArchiveADataset)
  • Use a templating language or framework for defining the HTML
  • Reduce log spam during testing