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1 -*- text -*-
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3 This is a list of features and also a list of suggested projects if
4 you want to work on the code. Status shows blank if it's not
5 complete, GO if someone's working on it that I know about (ask on list
6 so that we co-ordinate work) and DONE if I believe it to be complete
7 (although these may need testing, more bugfixing and optimisation).
8 Layers include HTML for templates, Base for the back-end modules, Glue
9 for the user interface scripts and the others should be obvious.
10
11 I've tried to put these in what I see as order of priority, with most
12 important near the top. Your opinion may be different and I won't
13 reject any work on later sections unnecessarily. Suggestions for more
14 things on this list are welcome (please send them to the mailing
15 list), but please see the blacklist at the bottom.
16
17 Status Layer Task
18 DONE Base Uses standard CGI protocols
19 DONE Base Works from replaceable HTML templates
20 DONE Base Split articles and index entries (support hybrid
21 sections and guest articles)
22 DONE Base NNTP-based user discussions
23 DONE HTML Templates include appropriate cache-control headers
24 DONE Base User registration and management
25 DONE Glue User comments on all articles
26 Base Correct User Permissions implementation (what was I thinking?)
27 DONE Glue SSI-enabled comments
28 GO Docs Comments in the code
29 GO Docs 100% GPL'd with all notices in place
30 All 100% Scheme code (need to write email sender module)
31 GO All Working v1.0 system with above features
32 DONE? Glue Browser-based administration framework
33 Glue Pull basic messages from themes instead of glue
34 Base Create configuration module
35 Base Support multiple sites from one installation (should follow)
36 Glue Maintenance scripts
37 HTML Templates for Palmtop, RSS and Ultramode editions of the site
38 Glue Palmtop, RSS and Ultramode editions of the site
39 Docs Installation guide and tutorial
40 Base Banner Ad services
41 Glue Banner Ad Administration
42 Glue Banner Ad Integration
43 HTML Banner Ad Integration
44 Base Survey services
45 Glue Survey Integration
46 HTML Survey Integration
47 Base Section management services
48 HTML Modify admin templates to support topic manager
49 Glue Section management integration
50 Docs Update documentation to include above modules
51 All Working v1.2 system with above features
52 Glue Theme support (one at a time per site)
53 HTML Alternative site themes
54 Glue Multiple simultaneous theme support
55 Glue Use multiple themes to offer some internationalisation
56 Base Session support
57 All Working v1.4 system with above features
58 Base Offer application server edition (Serveez?)
59
60
61 THE BLACKLIST
62
63 These are things I don't believe should be in the system, together
64 with reasons. You may still create them if you want, but they are
65 unlikely to be included in the base distribution unless you get them
66 absolutely perfect. I would *really* prefer you to work on the above
67 list first.
68
69 Encryption: I'm not a cryptographer. I'm probably not qualified to
70 judge the security of any cryptography implementations. I would much
71 rather rely on the http server, networking layer and database service
72 to provide encryption for us. They're far more likely to get it
73 right.
74
75 Search engines: in a limited way, this can be done (and was present in
76 v0.8), but I believe that dedicated search software is far better than
77 we are at indexing our site. We should give all the support we can to
78 them (ie need to improve our use of meta tags), but let's avoid
79 reinventing wheels for now.
80
81 Caching: yes, the software isn't as fast as it could be. The right
82 ways to fix this are to move from CGI to an application server and to
83 use an http accelerator to cache our output for us. Squid is a good
84 http accelerator and is far better at caching than we're likely to
85 be. Again, let's not reinvent perfectly good wheels, because we've
86 lots else to do.
87
88 Statistics: This one's only half-heartedly here. We could do lots of
89 clever statistics from the interaction of the base modules with the
90 glue that it's hard to get from normal log analysers. Not impossible
91 though. If someone wants to beef up stats support, then please do it
92 via an interface to squid or httpd logs, rather than slowing the base
93 system down more. There are lots of things higher up on the
94 priorities, though.

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