The main purpose of the CERN Alerter application is to provide one-way messaging system for distributing important CERN information to the users. Information is distributed in form of special RSS feeds and can be targeted to a specific set of users/machines. Those feeds are called CERN obligatory feeds and their subscription is enforced by the administrator. In addition to that some functionality for handling other (normal) RSS feeds has been provided. This allows user to subscribe to any RSS feed and use CERN Alerter notification mechanism, as a way of informing the user about new coming items. It can be a balloon or a popping window
| Milestone | End date | Description | Issues |
|---|---|---|---|
| ms1 | 27.08.10 | Pop balloon, tray icon, tray menu, browser open | n/a |
| ms2 | 03.09.10 | Settings property file, feeds reading | n/a |
| ms3 | 24.09.10 | Setting UI | n/a |
| ms4 | 01.10.10 | Packaging, bug fixing | n/a |
Release Candidate 1 (RC1) expected date: 04.10.10