Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Something very weird has happened to my Wiki

[Jeff D. <da...@da...>]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 12:51:26 +0000
"Reini Urban" <ru...@x-...> wrote:

> Adam Shand schrieb:
> > what are peoples thoughts on the timeline for this?  do we have a
> > tenative roadmap for what features we're trying to get ready for the
> > next stable release?


Are we talking about try to release a useable 1.3.x "development
snapshot", or are we talking about a 1.4 release?  (A 1.4 release implies
that there will one more branch of code for us to maintain.)


> 
> imho it's almost ready. 1-2 weeks?

Maybe, if we declare a feature freeze, and only work on testing, fixing
bugs, and a strict set of tasks deemed necessary for release.

Off the top of my head, some things I think we really need before a 1.4
release:

Forms based login.  We don't necessarily have to implement any more
functionality than we have now (admin login & bogo-login), but the
HTTP-auth based login mechanism is not available to everyone, and I think
we need to get to where every wiki admin can use the admin functions on
their wiki.

I'd like to clean up the default phpwiki.css a bit.

Either implement a kludgy fix for known PEAR bugs (I think probably by
including our own version of PEAR code in the distrib) or convert to ADODB
(or some other) not-so-buggy DB lib.

More testing.  We/I really need to write more (some) unit tests, etc... 
(I have a hard time getting very enthusiastic about it though, so don't
hold your breath...)

Code cleanup.  Experimental, not-fully functional code (mostly I'm
thinking plug-ins here) should be removed from (or disabled in) the stable
dist.  There's some other code (e.g. lib/Toolbar.php) that's still in
transition --- it would be nice to stabilize these before a release.


So, I guess I think we can do it but it will take a deliberate decision to
do so, as well as a fair amount of effort.  I guess the fact that we've
already converted the PhpWiki wiki to 1.3 indicates that it is time...