Release schedule, with features

Alpha 1 -- November 4, 2011

• Store the original file
• Data set metadata (source, provenance)
• Async data import
• Full-text search
• Import from CSV
• A running demo site (a single PANDA, deployed to the web)

Alpha 2 -- December 2, 2011

• Taxonomy for datasets (categories, tags?)
• Search dataset metadata (help me find a dataset)
• GUI tweaks, like
  • Tell user when async import finishes or errors out
  • Allow non-admin users to upload data (the staff vs. regular users issue)
• Bug fixes

Alpha 3 -- December 30

• Cumulative data sets via write API
• Cumulative data sets via write API demo
• Cumulative data sets via scraperwiki (??)
• Import from Excel

##Alpha 4 -- January 27

• Cumulative data sets via additional file uploads
• Encrypted communications (SSL)
• Export a dataset (to csv, xls? etc)
• Browser compatibility w/ recent versions of modern browsers: FF/Chrome/Safari/IE Beta 9
• Documents related to the dataset

Beta 1 -- NICAR, February 23, 2012

• Amazon Machine Image
• A plan for scaling (how to grow your PANDA)
• Import wizard/walk through UI
• Async data export

Beta 2 -- June 8, 2012

• Notifications

Beta 3 -- Feature freeze, July 20, 2012

• ???

1.0 -- August 1, 2012

• The PANDA cookbook
• Profit!