Functionality in Development

This is an overview of the main functionality currently in development for bitweaver. The meaning of the columns in the table below is as follows:

• Functionality: a (very) short description of the functionality in development.
• ETA: the current estimate by the developer(s) of the expected completion date of the previously specified functionality.
• Priority: this indicates how important the previously specified functionality is to make it into ReleaseTwo (R2) according to the developers on a scale of 1 to 5.
• Who: the developer(s) currently working on the previously specified functionality.

Functionality	Priority (1-5)	ETA	Who
FisheyePackage
Add a "Photo Journal" page to a gallery
LibertyPackage
convert liberty comments to a service ?
transparently update versions for all liberty content
reconcile inconsistencies in liberty: edit / data storage methods, content_id, edit / data not in content_store
LibertyStructures
liberty_structure.structure_id column needs fixing and use a sequence to generate ids
Speed up LibertyStructures - perhaps we need to migrate these to materialized paths like LibertyComments
StickiesPackage
Convert Stickies to a service	1
StarsPackage
*Allow user to permit / deny commenting, star'ing their own content
SearchPackage
Does not work with html pages - not seeing parsed page - This seems to be OK as long as the index on save option is selected, indexing from the command line does not work
General
Increase performance overall

IE Compatibility (of course it's its own section)

Problem	Solution	Status
Icon PNG Support	Make copies of all icon PNGs as Gifs	todo
Dependancies on "IE7" css lib	Check themes for problems	keep an eye out

Things that should be timed with the next release

• new theme - currently in the works by /laetzer - i hope to help out with this when i get back from spain - /xing
• all database changes mentioned above
• a plan on how to advertise a bit - we should have a plan that requires little work (we are all so friggin lazy) but has at least some impact.
• do some decent upgrade testing from R1 to R2 - this is a must!

Completed

New Packages

Package	Description	Who
GeoPackage	Geo Location Data Storage Service	/wjames5
ProtectorPackage	Content Access Control system, alternative to GatekeeperPackage (Operational - but still needs a little tidying up)	/lsces
StarsPackage	Content Rating System	/xing
TagsPackage	Content Key Word Tagging	/wjames5 /WaterDragon
RecommendsPackage	Content Recommending System - For Short Term Ratings Similar but different in purpose to Stars	/WaterDragon /wjames5
SitehomePackage	A package just for creating home pages	/lugie
BoardsPackage	Native bitweaver forum to replace phpBB	/spiderr

Package Improvements

Package	Status	Who
KernelPackage
PearDB support	DB abstraction layer is now interchangable to use different layers. PEAR::DB has been added, wtih the option of adding PDO in the future. See /articles/6 for details	/spider
LibertyPackage
Universal Content History	The page history mechanism from the WikiPacakge has been generalized for all content that opt to use it.	/spider
Content Translation	Linking together content translated into different languages. Tables are in, a stab at implementation is in, however needs more work.	/spider
FAST Comments	Comments now use a materialized path mechanism to allow fetch of hierarchical comments in a single query	/jht001
Update Backlinks	Lookup of related pages has been improved to update backlinks to pages with undefined links	/jht001
LibertyMetaData	Generic set of meta tables that can be used for tags, EXIF, data and more! Tables only right now, no code yet.	/exif
Content Preferences	Each individual piece of content can have indvidual preferences of any name/value pair. This is just like the old users_preferences table, that in fact was generalized, and users (which are content) now store their values in the general content_preferences table.
Create a log of all things content	basic logging functionality added. allows admins to track basic movements on the website	/xing
Parsed content caching	All parsed content can be cached by defining a maximum cache time in the liberty admin screen	/xing
Comment Administration	Perm to control administrative access to editing comments	/spider
Update LibertyComments	Spam protection with choice of two Captcha techniques and once per session checking for best usuability, prevent empty posts and duplicate posts from same user & ip	/xing and /spider
Content aliases	Alternate titles for all content. Will be namespace restrictive too. Tables are in, however logic needs to be written still	/spider
UsersPackage
Configurable Users Class	User a custom package to override the default User class so you can do custom authentication with pristine source, and more...	/spider
ThemesPackage
Add the Layout Gala	Allow specific themes to choose from a variety of different layouts using the same style	/xing
FisheyePackage
per gallery pagination style	user can select three different pagination / layout methods (matrix, auto-flow, or image position) on a per-gallery basis	/spider
Fractional Image ordering	Used with new pagination style, image order is now a float (10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3) to control number of images per page arbitrarily	/spider
Public image galleries	Per gallery choice to allow group contribution to galleries	/xing
Comments on images and galleries		/sylveig
Stars on images and galleries		?
User choosable original display	Per gallery option to select if original image sizes are available or not	/spider
BlogsPackage
Convert Blogs to LibertyContent	Blogs are now full fledged content as they always should have been. Oops, fixed now at least.	/spider
More Flexible	The structure of blogs has been greatly overhauled to enable automatic user blogs and better modularity for creation group blogs and cross posting a post between blogs on the same site. These upgrades are completely backward compatible with sites already running blogs	/spiderr /wjames5

Design and Layout

• ThemeStructureIdea2
• FutureTemplate