[Phpwiki-talk] 1.3.x series

[Steve W. <sw...@wc...>]

As 1.2 is shaken down, and I don't expect a lot of bugs at this point,
it's not too soon to think about the 1.3.x series.

I think there are some obvious things to drop, like:

references (that is, [1] [2] links)
support for 3.x PHP
dbmlib.php

I'd like to see some cruft cleaned out as well. Perhaps a rewrite of
transform.php (we've talked about modularizing it for a long time), and
drop all the old tab markup.

Perhaps the most requested feature, which I would like to see, is
authentication. I would like a model that follows the mailing list: the
user must have a valid email address. When they register, a link is
emailed to them that they must follow to validate the account, or perhaps
we can just mail out the password. Their account name will already be used
in RecentChanges when they edit a page. This can be configured so it
doesn't work at all (like PhpWiki is now).

Second, a more permanent archive. Pages should live longer than one
version. This can be configured to zero, ten, one hundred previous pages.

Third, I still long for a better search interface than what we have now
(which doesn't work too bad, but could be better).

Any navigational aids we can contrive would help, like SiteMap, or
HotLinks or whatever.

Just some food for thought...
~swain

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