Review/merge order for major MMDevice/MMCore PRs

[marktsuchida]

Here is a list to keep track of the currently outstanding PRs that make significant changes to MMCore/MMDevice, in proposed order of merging. This does not mean that these PRs are ready to be merged in their current form -- only that I think this is a reasonable order in which we can review, adapt, and merge.

• Split camera device base class into Base and LegacyBase #590 (and Migrate Cameras from CLegacyBase to CCamerBase #598)
  • 590 should be rebased so as not to touch the camera adapters that it doesn't have to (cameras that don't use legacy functions should receive no changes)
  • Otherwise this should be straightforward (and does not affect Device Interface Version)
• New MM::StorageDevice and addition to the MMCore API #535
  • 535 is mostly independent of the rest and could be reordered, as long as it does not add deeper interactions with camera acquisition
• Standard properties for device adapters #584
  • Any bikeshedding on naming scheme?
• Allow camera device adapters to call InsertImage on snap #592 and New camera API #593
  • 592 should be considered part of 593
  • Depends on 590 and 584
  • Requires adding tests to be sure that we don't break existing cameras
  • We need a clear story for migration (for cameras and apps) without permanently splitting the interface
• New image buffer #570
  • Probably by splitting (as branches off the PR branch) into a few reviewable/testable units
  • We may want to reduce risk by introducing a pluggable buffering scheme
  • Need migration strategy for Multi Camera
  • Need safer way to track Java-owned pointers to C++ memory