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

[Jonathan S. <jn...@ge...>]

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 21:30, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> 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?
> 

Done. At http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/phase2.html as below.

Dave, I've checked the file into CVS in pub/in/phase2.html if you want
to make it better fit the house style or do any changes.

> 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) ?
> 

Yep, all good stuff.

> Nicholas Clark
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