X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/035a4f31b11a7aad1074ee650cf5ff3b0d15691a..3a6d0d3a771cbbc1f252cb3cfcdbeabf36d38f2b:/doc/todo.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/todo.mdwn b/doc/todo.mdwn index 1a0dd6fb4..996a1535b 100644 --- a/doc/todo.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo.mdwn @@ -1,29 +1,48 @@ ## online page editing -To support editing pages in a web browser, a CGI script is needed that -pulls the page out of [[Subversion]], presents it to the user for editing, -and then commits the changed page back to [[Subversion]]. +* Eventually, might want page deletion. +* Eventually, might want file upload. -Due to [[WikiSpam]], this will probably also need to incorporate a user -registration system. So there will need to be a script that handles logins -and registrations, sets a cookie, and the page editor can refuse to edit -pages for users who arn't logged in, and include a not of who made the -change in the svn log. +## recentchanges -If possible I'd prefer to use someone else's generic web user registration -and login system, if one exists. +* Should support RSS for notification of new and changed pages. -## [[RecentChanges]] + This can be a static rss file that is generated when the moo +is built. (As long as all changes to all pages is ok.) -This will need to be another cgi script, that grubs through the -[[Subversion]] logs. +* Should support mail notification of new and changed pages. -This should support RSS for notification of new and changed pages. + Hmm, should be easy to implement this.. it runs as a svn post-coommit hook + already, so just look at the userdb, svnlook at what's changed, and send + mails to people who have subscribed. -## page history + A few details: + 1. [[Joey]] mentioned that being able to subscribe to globs as well as + explicitly named pages would be desirable. + 2. I think that since we're using Perl on the backend, being able to + let users craft their own arbitrary regexes would be good. -To see past versions of a page, we can either implement a browser for that, -or just provide a way to link to the page in viewcvs. + Joey points out that this is actually a security hole, because Perl + regexes let you embed (arbitrary?) Perl expressions inside them. Yuck! + + It would also be good to be able to subscribe to all pages except discussion pages or the SandBox: `* !*/discussion !sandobx`, maybe --[[Joey]] + + 3. Of course if you do that, you want to have form processing on the user + page that lets them tune it, and probably choose literal or glob by + default. + + The first cut, I suppose, could use one sendmail process to batch-mail all + subscribers for a given page. However, in the long run, I can see users + demanding a bit of feature creep: + + 4. Each user should be able to tune whether they see the actual diff parts or + not. + 5. Each user should be able to set a maximum desired email size. + 6. We might want to support a user-specified shibboleth string that will be + included in the email they receive so they can easily procmail the messages + into a folder. + + --[[BrandenRobinson]] ## pluggable renderers @@ -44,9 +63,66 @@ that linked back to it could be added to the page. However, doing linkbacks also needs to tie into the main logic, to determine what pages need to be renered, so maybe that won't be a plugin. -## revist case +## revisit case Being case insensative is handy, but it does make the [[BackLinks]] a bit ugly compared to other links. It should be possible to support pagenames that have uppercase, while still allowing them to be linked to using any case. + +## html + +Make the html valid. Add css. + +## sigs + +Need a way to sign name in page that's easier to type than "--\[[Joey]]" +and that includes the date. + +What syntax do other wikis use for this? I'm considering "\[[--]]" (with +spaces removed) as it has a nice nmemonic. + +OTOH, adding additional syntax for this would be counter to one of the +design goals for ikiwiki: keeping as much markup as possible out of the +wiki and not adding nonstandard markup. And it's not significantly hard to +type "--\[[Joey]]", and as to the date, we do have page history. + +## recentchanges links to commit diffs + +Would take a bit more viewcvs integration, let the be a "[diff]" link in +recentchanges that goes to the diff for any listed change. + +## recentchanges more than 100 + +Possibly add "next 100" link to it, but OTOH, you can just use svn log if +you need that data.. + +## search + +* full text (use third-party tools?) +* list of all missing pages +* list of all pages or some kind of page map + +## page indexes + +Might be nice to support automatically generating an index based on headers in a page, for long pages. The question is, how to turn on such an index? + +## page locking + +Some wikis will need the abiity to lock a page, or the whole wiki, so that only admins can edit them. Probably using the same globbing as for recentchanges mails to determine what to lock. + +Probably it's ok if locking is only supported for web commits. + +## User settings page + +A cgi page to allow a user to log out and to edit their prefs, including password, email, and anything we add later (subscriptions, etc). + +## Logo + +ikiwiki needs a logo. I'm thinking something simple like the word "ikiwiki" with the first "k" backwards; drawn to show that it's "wiki" reflected. + +## Page last-changed timestamps + +Of course you can go to the history to see when a page last changed in svn, still, it will be nice to have a timestamp at the bottom of pages. Should be based on the modification date of the source file, not the last rebuild date. + +## [[Bugs]]