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. More information can be found under the header "Details" below the table.
• ETA: the current estimate by the developer(s) of the expected completion date of the previously specified functionality.
• Importance for R2: 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 developers currently working on the previously specified functionality.

Overview

Functionality	ETA	Importance for R2 (1-5)	Who
Example functionality description	dd-mm-yy	5	Developer

Details

• LibertyPackage
  • URL safe/simple alternate title for all content
  • Content Translation
  • LibertyStatus
  • Speed up LibertyStructures - perhaps we need to migrate these to materialized paths like LibertyComments
• FisheyePackage
  • Comments & Stars
  • user choosable original display
  • Fractional ordering to indicate page display (10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3) etc.
• StarsPackage
  • Allow user to permit / deny commenting, star'ing their own content
• Increase performance overall

Completed

New Packages

Package	Description	Who
StarsPackage	Content Rating System	/xing
ProtectorPackage	Content Access Control system, alternative to GatekeeperPackage	/lsces

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
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
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.
Parsed content caching	All parsed content can be cached by defining a maximum cache time in the liberty admin screen	/xing
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

Design and Layout

• ThemeStructureIdea2
• FutureTemplate