[Nms-cgi-devel] Re: NMS and Google SoC

[Nicholas C. <ni...@cc...>]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 05:03:35PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote:

[Much]

It seemed rather more text than the other project ideas have on
http://www.perl.org/advocacy/summerofcode/ideas.html

Would you be able to put this full description as a page on
nms-cgi.sourceforge.net, which the ideas page can link to?

If so, is this an acceptable summary for the ideas page?

    Create a "Web Application Toolkit" for the NMS project.

    NMS has been very successful at providing well-written re-implementations of
    certain popular but insecure CGI scripts, but the requirement to be
    "drop-in" replacements has constrained what could be done. The next phase
    is to provide entirely new programs based around a "Web Application
    Toolkit", wide variety of functionality without any programming knowledge
    on the part of the person configuring it, and it should be simply
    installed on the majority of shared web hosting that supports Perl CGI
    programs.  The work has been started - 'TFmail' is the recommended
    replacement for the 'FormMail' program.

    The project would be to write this toolkit and scripts that use it. The
    toolkit should incorporate all TFmail's functionality, but also support
    configurations as Guestbook, Web Discussion Board, Content Search, Link
    Exchange, or any combination. It's likely to need code to deal with

           * Authentication
           * Rate limiting of requests
           * Session management
           * Secure file handling
           * Generalized and flexible error reporting
           * Message threading
           * Improved templating engine

    see http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/phase2.html for more information.

(is that a good URL) ?

Nicholas Clark