X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/7236d09adb3c5139e4990dad88f41c4ca4c18eb4..4668c290e9c625682c998afc38b76215a212fc10:/doc/roadmap.mdwn diff --git a/doc/roadmap.mdwn b/doc/roadmap.mdwn index 3f6a59782..488e2dec8 100644 --- a/doc/roadmap.mdwn +++ b/doc/roadmap.mdwn @@ -1,53 +1,65 @@ -This is the roadmap for ikiwiki drevelopment. +This is the roadmap for ikiwiki development. # 1.0 -Generally usable release. - -* No severe [[security]] bugs. (./) -* All the [[features]] people would expect in a wiki. Needs to be a plausable - promise of being a wiki that people can commit to [[using|ikiwikiusers]]. - (./) +* No severe [[security]] bugs. +* All the basic [[features]] people would expect in a wiki. Released 29 April 2006. +The 1.x series changed a great deal over the more than 50 releases in its +lifetime. It is now in maintenance mode, only security issues or really bad +bugs will be fixed in 1.x going forward. 1.x will stop being supported with +the release of 3.0. + +---- + # 2.0 -* Unit test suite (with tests of at least core stuff like - [[PageSpec]]). _(status: exists, could of course use more tests)_ -* [[Plugins]] (./) -* [[Tags]] (./) -* Should have fully working [[todo/utf8]] support. (./) -* [[Optimised_rendering|todo/optimisations]] if possible. Deal with other - scalability issues. _(status: scales to thousands of pages, and approximatly - 3.5 times as fast as version 1.0)_ (./) -* Improved [[todo/html]] stylesheets and templates. -* Improved scalable [[logo]]. (./) -* Support for at other revision control systems aside from svn. - See [[about_rcs_backends]] _(status: supports git, tla, mercurial)_ (./) -* Support for other markup languages than markdown - _(status: done with rst, textile, etc. Markdown still works best though.)_ - (./) -* No serious known [[bugs]] -* No severe-to-moderate known [[security]] issues. +* New improved URLs to pages via `usedirs`. +* [[plugins/OpenID]] support, enabled by default. +* Plugin [[interface|plugins/write]] added, with some 60 [[plugins]] available, + greatly expanding the capabilities of ikiwiki. +* [[Tags]], atom feeds, and generally full-fledged blogging support. +* Fully working [[todo/utf8]]. +* Optimisations, approximately 3.5 times as fast as version 1.0. +* Improved scalability to large numbers of pages. +* Improved scalable [[logo]]. +* Support for additional revision control systems besides svn: git, + tla, mercurial. +* Some support for other markup languages than markdown: rst, textile. +* Unit test suite, with more than 300 tests. + +Released 30 April 2007. + +The 2.x series is expected to undergo continuing development for some time, +adding improvements and new features, but avoiding changes that break +backwards compatability. + +---- + +# 3.0 + +Version 3.0 will be an opportunity to make significant transitions. + +* Default to using `prefix_directives`. +* Default to using `aggregateinternal`. +* Remove deprecated prefs form settings for `allowed_attachments` and + `locked_pages`. +* Finalise a new version of the plugin API, exporting additional commonly + used functions from IkiWiki.pm. See [[todo/firm_up_plugin_interface]] + +It will include a vast number of new features, bugfixes, and other +improvements, far too many to list here. + +Release is planned for fall, 2008. + +---- + +# future goals + * Conversion support for existing other wikis. (Being worked on for MoinMoin and TWiki by [[Josh_Triplett|JoshTriplett]] and Jamey Sharp; support for other wikis should fit into the same framework.) - -2.0 will also be an opportunity to remove old backwards compiatbility -features and make other changes to the default configuration. Some things -I'm considering: - -* Enabling OpenID by default. (Need to fix - [[bugs/login_page_non-obvious_with_openid]] first.) -* Dropping GlobLists. However, they can lurk in preferences settings in wikis, - which may make getting rid of them hard, and it may be worth keeping them - so users can list pages without anding them together. -* Making page/index.html be the default output filename, rather than page.html. - _(status: option `usedirs` exists; not yet the default)_ -* Enabling [[plugins/goodstuff]] by default? -* Possibly making [[PageSpecs|pagespec]] match relative by default, rather than the current absolute - (see [[Discussion]]) - -Estimated release date for 2.0: 29 April 2007. +* [[TODO]], [[bugs]], ...