I) Physics data representation
- Introduce uploaded file types (events, meta information, generator-config, generator-binary, other)
- Readjusting of physical process description
- Introduction of plus/minus errors
II) Integration of MCDB API improvements with CMSSW chain
- adoptation of LHEF format with HepML 0.2 for the automatic processing of meta information
- tracking of the necessary changes in the CMSSW development.
III) Storage system
- Add file checksum inspection
- calculation before upload to Castor
- readjusting file information in DB
- add support to Web-interface
- Grid upload directly to article incoming directory on Castor
- provide author just a direct link to article's grid directory and allow to get file(s) from this directory using web-interface.
IV) Software
- Improve installation of the MCDB software (prefarrably as an RPM package) for better support and reinstallations in IT
- distribution
- setup scripts
- modification of config-file parsing (use previously declared parameters in sequentional ones to simplify configuration process)
- technical description for system adminitrator (based on MCDB installation guide)
- Improve mailing system
- possibility to contact author/moderator directly from web pages of MCDB site
- Small changes to MCDB API
- work with different XML-parsers
- add operations with changed data structures (processes, cuts)
- bug fixing
- Adopting software to use mod_perl to speed up server response and go forward to completely production operation
- Implement Log system of MCDB changes
- Distribute the developed software as an OpenSource project in HepForge
V) Web interface
a) Article displaying
- Fix styles for comments to articles (remove wide-stretch)
- Provide context links to navigate used object detailed descriptions (generator, model, etc.)
- Show both precise and rounded file size
b) Authoring interface
- Storage of incomplete articles (with publication prohibition)
- Support of concurrent work on articles
- Disunite physical process information (PDF, QCD); store separate process information for each article using standard set of predefined parameters (PDF, QCD, initial and final state, etc.)
- Support for disabling/enabling of HTML-code (enterd by author) in different parts of article body
- Implement more correct method of monitoring of file import/upload
- Filter possible displaying groups of physics according to choosen experiment
c) General issues
- Reduce all frames on MCDB pages to one
- Give more detailed error reports with further directions (for example, in case of insuccessfull authentication)
- Automatic conversion of article to PDF document
VI) Help and support
- Extention of user guide and context help
- Developers documentation on CERN TWiki