= Request for Comments (RFCs) =
== About RFCs ==
RFCs represent one possible mechanism for soliciting feedback for core Cytoscape features / refactoring.  For details on RFCs in general, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments the Wikipedia Entry:  Request for Comments (RFCs)

== RFC Template ==
Creating a new RFC?  Use the [[RFCTemplate]] and add a link to table below.

== RFC Index ==
|| '''Name of RFC''' ||'''Date of RFC Creation''' ||'''Target''' ||'''Status''' ||
|| ''Please add your next RFC here...'' || ''... the date'' || ''... the target release'' || ''... and the status'' ||
|| [[AppManagerErrorHandling|RFC 67]]: App Manager Error Handling || 2015-04-29 || 3.3 || draft ||
|| [[RemoteJobAPI|RFC 68]]: Remote Job API || 2015-06-04 || 3.3 || draft ||

=== Legacy RFCs ===
|| '''Name of RFC''' ||'''Date of RFC Creation''' ||'''Target''' ||'''Status''' ||
|| [[CytoscapeWebSiteRenewal|RFC 66]]: Cytoscape Web Site Renewal|| 2010-05-19 || 2.8 || draft ||
|| [[Cytoscape_2.8/EquationAttributes|RFC 65]]: Add attribute reference equations as attributes|| 2009-12-22 || 2.8 || draft ||
|| [[CytoscapeCommons|RFC 64]]: Cytoscape Commons: a site for plugin development || 2009-04-21 || 3.0 || draft ||
|| [[Cytoscape_3.0/EventHandling|RFC 63]]: Event handling in Cytoscape 3.0 || 2008-11-21 || 3.0 || draft ||
|| [[Cytoscape_3.0/DataProvenance|RFC 62]]: Support for Data Provenance in Cytoscape 3.0 || 2008-11-20 || 3.0 || draft ||
|| [[AutomaticBugReporter|RFC 61]]: Automatic Bug reporter of Cytoscape || 2008-09-19 || 3.0 || open ||
|| [[Advanced_Network_Merge_and_ID_Mapping|RFC 60]]: Advanced Network Merge and ID Mapping API || 2008-05-02 || 2.6 || open ||
|| [[Cytoscape_Book|RFC 59]]: Cytoscape Book || 2008-05-02 || 3.0 || RFC under construction ||
|| [[Pathway_walking_plugin|RFC 58]]: Pathway Walking Plugin || 2007-12-05 || 2.5 || being coded ||
|| [[CytoscapeRewrite|RFC 57]]: Cytoscape Rewrite (alt to RFC 46) || 2007-10-30 || 3.0 || open ||
|| [[Visual_Style_Simplification|RFC 56]]: Visual Style Simplification || 2007-10-29 || 3.0 || open ||
|| [[WebFrontEnd|RFC 55]]: Web Front End for Cytoscape || 2007-10-24 || 3.0 || open ||
|| [[CytoscapeThemes|RFC 54]]: Cytoscape Themes: A Pinch of Syntactic Sugar || 2007-10-24 || 3.0 ||in testing ||
|| [[CytoService|RFC 53]]: Subgene''''''Viewer: Cytoscape from Service Provider Perspective || 2007-10-23 || 2.7 ||open ||
|| [[EventHandling|RFC 52]]: Event Handling System || 2007-10-23 || 3.0 || open ||
|| [[CytoscapeProject|RFC 51]]: Cytoscape Projects || 2007-10-23 || 3.0 || open ||
|| [[TaskManagement|RFC 50]]: Task Management || 2007-10-17 || 3.0 || open ||
|| [[GroupViews|RFC 49]]: Viewing groups || 2007-09-26 || 2.x || open ||
|| [[CytoscapePluginBundles|RFC 48]]: Plugin Themes || 2007-09-13 || 2.6 || being coded ||
|| [[PluginRefactor|RFC 47]]: Plugin Interface Refactor || 2007-08-24 || 3.0 || open ||
|| [[CytoscapeLayerRefactor|RFC 46]]: Cytoscape Layers Refactor || 2007-08-16 || 3.0 || open ||
|| [[BioWebServiceConnectivity|RFC 45]]: Web Services Client Manager and Unified Network/Attribute Import Mechanism || 2007-08-15 || 2.6 || being coded ||
|| [[DependencyManagement|RFC 44]]: Build Process/Dependency Management || 2007-08-01 || 3.0 || open ||
|| [[ExcentricLabelRFC|RFC 43]]: Excentric Labeling in Cytoscape || 2007-07-26 || 2.x || being coded ||
|| [[TaskMonitorRefactoring|RFC 42]]: Task Monitor Refactoring || 2007-07-26 || 3.0 || open ||
|| [[Consolidated_graph_analysis_plugin|RFC 41]]: Consolidated Graph Analysis Plugin || 2007-07-24 || 2.x || open ||
|| [[Scripting|RFC 40]]: Scripting in Cytoscape || 2007-07-24 || 3.0 || open ||
|| [[DataIntegration|RFC 39]]: Data Integration/Web Services || 2007-07-19 || 2.x || being coded ||
|| [[CodeLayering|RFC 38]]: Code Layering || 2007-07-18 || 3.0 || open ||
|| [[AttributeNamespaces|RFC 37]]: Attribute Namespaces || 2007-06-27 || 3.0 || open ||
|| [[LayoutImprovement|RFC 36]]: Layout Improvement || 2007-06-26 || 2.5 || closed ||
|| [[Molecular_Interaction_Maps|RFC 35]]: Molecular Interaction Maps || 2006-10-10 || 3.0 || open ||
|| [[UserTraining|RFC 34]]: User Training Strategy || 2007-05-18 || 3.0 || open ||
|| [[Filters_UI_Redesign|RFC 33]]: Filters UI Redesign || 2007-04-25 || 2.6 || being coded ||
|| [[RichLineTypes|RFC 32]]: rich linetypes || 2007-04-22 || 3.0 || open ||
|| [[LocalAttributes|RFC 31]]: Implement local (per-network) attributes || 2007-04-22 || 3.0 || open ||
|| [[UndirectedEdges|RFC 30]]: Making undirected edges first-class citizens || 2007-04-22 || 3.0 || being coded ||
|| [[WebServicesIDMapping|RFC 29]]: Web services API for ID mapping/translator service || 2007-04-13 || 2.6 || being coded ||
|| [[MultilevelLayout|RFC 28]]: Multilevel graph layout algorithm || 2007-02-15 || 2.6 || being coded ||
|| [[BubbleRouterRFC|RFC 25]]: Bubble Router Plugin || 2007-01-19 || 2.6 || being coded ||
|| [[ImportExportMenus|RFC 23]]: Cleaning up the import/export file menus || 2007-01-08 || 3.0 || open ||
|| [[GuiTesting|RFC 21]]: User interface testing framework || 2006-10-31 || 3.0 || open ||
|| [[HeadlessModeRFC|RFC 6]]:  Cytoscape headless mode operation || 2006-01-27 || 3.0 || open ||
=== Completed RFCs ===
|| [[Pluginwebsite|RFC 27]]: Plugin Web site and auto import || 2007-02-07 || 2.5 || closed ||
|| [[PerformanceProfilingRFC|RFC 26]]: Performance Profiling || 2007-02-06 || 2.5 || closed ||
|| [[VizMapUI|RFC 24]]: Visual Mapping GUI Redesign || 2006-01-10 || 2.5 || closed ||
|| [[SingleInstanceWebstart|RFC 22]]: Creating single instance webstarts || 2006-12-12 || 2.5 || closed ||
|| [[TextFileImport|RFC 20]]: General Text/Excel file import framework || 2006-10-11 || 2.5 || closed ||
|| [[HyperEdgeAPI|RFC 19]]: Hyper''''''Edge API || 2006-09-12 || 2.5 || closed ||
|| [[groupAPI|RFC 18]]: Group API (replaces RFC 8 and RFC 9) || 2006-08-16 || 2.5 || closed ||
|| [[ImportableFileTypeRFC|RFC 17]]: Importable File Type || 2006-03-14 || 2.4 || closed ||
|| [[SimpleTextTableImport|RFC 16]]: Text Table Network File Import || 2007-01-19? || 2.5 || closed ||
|| [[CytoscapeIcons|RFC 15]]:  New Icon Set for Cytoscape 2.4 || 2006-07-19 || 2.4 || closed ||
|| [[QuickFindRFC|RFC 14]]:  Quick Find Feature || 2006-07-05 || 2.4 || closed ||
|| [[BioDataServerRFC|RFC 13]]: New Bio Data Server (Gene Ontology Server) || 2006-06-22 || 2.4 || closed ||
|| [[VizMapPropsRFC|RFC 12]]:  Fixing the loading and saving of the vizmap.props file || 2006-03-07 || 2.4 || closed ||
|| [[UndoManager_RFC|RFC 11]]:  Cytoscape Undo Manager || 2006-01-26 || 2.5 || closed ||
|| [[PreferenceInitializationRFC|RFC 10]]:  Preferences initialization || 2006-03-22 || 2.4 || closed ||
|| [[SimplifiedMetaNodeDataStructureRFC|RFC 9]]:  Simplified !MetaNode Data Structure || 2006-01-27 || 2.4 || closed ||
|| [[MetaNodes_RFC|RFC 8]]:  !MetaNodes || 2006-01-18 || 2.4 || closed ||
|| [[ImportableFileTypeRFC|RFC 7]]:  Adding support for additional file types || 2006-03-14 || 2.4 || closed ||
|| [[Wiki_clean-up_RFC|RFC 5]]: Wiki clean-up || 2006-02-23 || 2.5 || closed ||
|| [[License_clean-up_RFC|RFC 4]]: Java code license clean-up || 2006-02-16 || 2.4 || closed ||
|| [[RFC_3]]:  Migrating the user manual to the wiki || 2005-12-25 || 2.4 || closed ||
|| [[RFC_2]]:  Improving the quality of the Cytoscape 2.3 release || 2005-11-28 || 2.4 || closed ||
|| [[RFC_1]]:  Migrating !GraphObjAttributes to !CyAttributes || 2005-09-30 || 2.3 || closed ||