This page lists current, past and future development efforts in a central place. If you want to GetInvolvedWithDevelopment it's a good idea to start here and also read the various existing DevDocuments (recommendations and notes).

long-term issues

• ProposedMarkupChanges
• known and PendingBugs (and GremlinsUnderTheBed - uh, scary, can't sleep) that prevent next *MajorRelease
• TheXmlWay
• UnicodeSupport
• InitPages maintainance
• CssSupport

official todo list

This is the assorted list of wishes, notes and most frustrating bugs that need attention in the near future. The order of appearance does not influnce priority. Grouping would be fine, but is often impossible to the divergent scope of the entries.

• PatchIntegrationTool
• VersioningSwitch
• *CoreSplit now possible (120K is too much)
• GetText instead of aging ewiki_t()
• PluginMetaData - each plugin.php script accompanied by a .meta file
• *ListPlugins - already exist, just weren't used until now, need exposure within MpiPlugins
• create a real *PluginRepository with upload area and lots of meta files and RSS feed for upgrades
• integrate PluginToIntegrateTinyMCE into the distribution together with TinyMce itself (LGPL)
• AdminTools rework and moving (from spages/Admin/ and plugins/admin/ and into tools/ and cron.d/)
• PendingDecisions:
  • integrate the MagicSlashesWorkaround into the core script? - 1 vote against
  • eliminate ExtraPackage, move everything into the core distribution? - XML-RPC interface will be required by some newer features
  • shall we make ewiki fully WarningAndNoticeSafe ?
  • integrate a *DiffAlgorithm into the core?
• AntiSpamMeasures
• support for WebDav is on the rise
• the WikiCommander is going to provide a web-based ewikictl replacement
• discussion on a BugTrackingSystem
• EmailGateway for forum and discussion pages
• the new ObjectOrientedDatabaseInterface backends aren't well tested yet
• PingBack or TrackBack anyone?
• SearchEnhancements (building the FutureSearch function)
• LinkTags
  • XhtmlLinkPrefixes
• editing and completion of our InitPages (on a separate *InitPages: wiki)
  • complete referenced "OnlineDocumentation"
• WantedPlugins
  • WishList
  • FeatureRequests
• NewFileSystem
• MpiPlugins
• MetaMeta - needs rework, started but unstable
• InterWikiFeatures
  • --PublicallyEditableIntermap--
• XpiPlugins
  • JavaScriptInterpreter
• SqlOnlyPlugins
• AuthenticationPluginRules
• a renewed rendering kernel

• are coordinated using the DevelopersPage.TaskManager
• SecurePlugin
  • RenderOnlyMode
• get new ideas from PhpWiki:CategoryNextWikiSuggestions
• BlogSupport -- Andy working on it
  • a second more simple solution (calendar-like) ?
• SessionVariablesAPI -- I wrote one :-)
• MultiWiki - Notions involving multiple wikis on one site.
  • *SubWiki - Basic, simple extension for multiple wikis in one database; done
  • Annotations - Annotiations are a use of *SubWikis to provide user editable space inside a wiki that not all users can edit.
• the proposed new PageType flag _DB_F_PART
• SubPages
  • WikiNameSpaceDivision
• ForumPlugin
• RequestParameterClashPrevention

site external discussions:

• *BrightByte:BetterEWiki
• *BrightByte:EWikiCorePatches

getting ideas from outside

We certainly have a lot of fancy ideas to offer ourselfes, but often others have even better feature ideas, that certainly deserve attention.

• WishList, UserSuggestions, FeatureRequests
• PhpWikiMonitoring
• WikiFeatures: and WikiFeatures:FeatureSummaries, WikiFeatures:IdeasToPlace summarize the hot ideas

finished

(not that we shouldn't keep an eye on these, or enhance them further)

• StaticPages
• InitializationPlugin (not finished, but better than nothing)
• EWikionWindows looks quite good
• CaseInSensitivity is supported
• PluginDirectoryRestructuring is done!
• DocumentationRefactoring
• TableOfContentsPlugin
• SetupWizard, WebInstaller
• CreatePseudoAction (only visible to auth plugins)

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