Jerusalem Release - Road Map and Release Focus

Release Focus of Jerusalem Release

• Better app platform:
  • TWiki app packaging standard & TWikiAppInstaller
  • App repository on twiki.org

• Better usability:
  • Drag and drop an image into the WYSIWYG editor, and also in attach screen
  • Improved PreferencesPlugin for point & click access control & preferences settings
  • Improved CalendarPlugin with modern look, point & click events, more views, export iCal data
  • Improved EditTablePlugin and SpreadSheetPlugin to get sexy looking and usable spreadsheets like Google Docs & Excel

• Better performance:
  • Goal: Speed-up queries and page load to 1 sec

• Bring social features into TWiki:
  • Wall
  • Micro-blogging / activity streams: User generated and apps generated
  • Profile pictures in reports (recent changes, search, ...)

• Miscellaneous:
  • Add support for IPv6
  • Easier installation (fix extension installer bugs)
  • Drop old browsers and specify supported browsers & versions
  • Support for mobile devices

Brainstorming / Wishlist for Discussion

• WYSIWYG editor: Get rid of the round trip of TinyMCE retrieving the page content
• Use DataTables jQuery plugin as frontend for functional combination of EditTablePlugin and SpreadSheetPlugin
• Enhance RepositoryForSiteAndWebMetadata to cache topic metadata: Topic meta, form meta, attachment meta, topic summary, headings cache, wikiword links cache

Release Focus of Previous JerusalemRelease

• Usability, usability, usability:
  • Web based admin functionality for users, groups, webs, topics
• Bring social features into TWiki:
  • Wall
  • Micro-blogging / activity streams: User generated and apps generated
  • Profile pictures in reports (recent changes, search, ...)
• TWiki application marketplace:
  • Packaging standard for TWiki apps
  • App repository on twiki.org

Overall TWiki Road Map

TWikiRoadMap:

• Usability:
  • Seamless, quick, extensible WYSIWYG
  • Manage TML code via "sectional edit" widgets
  • Point and click permissions
  • Flow of manipulating content: File upload, more screen,... Drag and drop file attachments
  • Copy existing page to make new page
  • Clean up diff's presentation of page history
• Performance & scalability:
  • Fast structured queries
  • Fast text search including attachment content
  • SQL Storage back-end that scales to gazillions of pages with compatibility and audit trail
  • Address high traffic bottlenecks by e.g. implementing caching
  • Topic Object Model
  • Archive Data
• Application platform:
  • Easy ways to build & exchange applications & component
  • TWiki API for Java programmers
• Internationalization:
  • Full UTF-8 Support (including WikiWords),both LR and RL.
• Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) Features:
  • Ad-hoc creation of communities, invite to community, join/leave a community
  • ESN specific search
  • Definition of standard ESN fields and their relation to LDAP
• Mashups:
  • Easy ways to mash up different data sources & applications (XML/SOAP/JSON/OpenSocial toolkit)
  • Tight Integration with other related applications, such as Sharepoint, Google Search Appliance, SalesForce, Bugzilla, Nagios
• Skins:
  • Stable template baseline for skins
  • Easily customizable skin
• Administration:
  • Improved User, group and other management
  • Add site metrics, User page views, user page adds over time
  • Content converters to import content from other wiki platforms
• Documentation:
  • Reorganize and polish content of the TWiki distribution to be more accessible, not only for TWiki Administrators or developers
  • Refactor TWiki.org site navigation and presentation to be more accessible by evaluators and press/bloggers

-- Contributors: Peter Thoeny - 2013-10-25

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