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
BlogsPackage
Convert Blogs to LibertyContent
FisheyePackage
Add a "Photo Journal" page to a gallery	5	9/15	/spider
LibertyPackage
Update LibertyComments with spam protection
URL safe/simple alternate title for all content
Content Translation
convert liberty comments to a service ?
transparently update versions for all liberty content
Create a log of all things content	5
reconcile inconsistencies in liberty: edit / data storage methods, content_id, edit / data not in content_store
LibertyStructures
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
General
Increase performance overall

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

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
Comment Administration	Perm to control administrative access to editing comments	/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

Design and Layout

• ThemeStructureIdea2
• FutureTemplate