[Phpwiki-talk] Ready for 1.3.8 ? Heads up

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 09:02:56PM -0600, Dan F wrote:
>>Reini Urban wrote:
>>>Are we ready for the intermediate 1.3.8 release?
>>
>>Let me join malcolmr in saying:
>>1. PhpWiki has great potential.
>>2. Releasing something stable is good.
>>
>>Also, I would really like to use some of the things in 1.3.8, e.g. 
>>strong user authentication.
>>
>>I know people asking you to release without doing any work can be 
>>irritating, but you have to take it in the spirit given: you have an 
>>attentive user base.

The only remaining problem before releasing 1.3.8 is a gettext or 
update_locale problem for foreign languages.
All other issues (besides running as CGI) has been resolved now.

The strange thing is that on most of my test setups everything works 
okay, just on PhpWikiDemo it fails sometimes, sometimes it works.
Which lets me assume that it could be a preferences setting.

What is planned for the next releases up to 1.4.0
-------------------------------------------------
Page permissions editable:
   * enable and simplify WikiAdminSetAcl, and probably WikiAdminChmod.
     let the user harden the ACL's of some pages.
     Default: loose permissions as before
Page permissions enforced:
   * check in all actions, plugins and listers for access permissions.
     (listers almost done)
WikiDB:
   * update to the latest ADODB library (but not the session class)
   * switch to FETCH_ROW
   * check for the dirty ADODB mysql hacks
    (INSERT ... SELECT)
   * test SQLite and PHP 5.0.x
Plugins:
   * WikiForum (almost the same as AddComments and WikiBlog)
   * Amazon, Google API's (using SOAP)
   * RateThisPage (user-specific and overall)
More Themes:
   * nuke (a tiny-font three-column theme),
   * crao (buttons as icons which need no translation, and
     more sidebar tricks)
Localization updates:
   * with the new _WikiTranslation and TranslateText features
     hopefully some holes will get filled.
action=upgrade for database upgrades, pgsrc diffs and with verification.
   (currently only pgsrc upgrade on missing pages)

I'm not sure the requested installer and WikiAuth split-up into seperate 
files. Seperate UserPreferences classes are more important IMHO.

All this is not too much work. I think of about 2-3 weeks from
1.3.8 to 1.4.0
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/