| Area |
4.6.3 and previous |
5.0 |
5.1 |
5.2 |
5.3 |
6.0 |
Unscheduled |
| Performance
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Monitoring package
Caching
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Improvements to permissions checking
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Creation of dynamic "bottlenecks" page in Monitoring package
Integrate Monitoring into core
Improve scalability of user management pages
Add tools for creating large sample data sets
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Documentation on large-scale installations |
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Stability
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ACS Automated Testing package
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nightly build and test servers
Minimal auto-testing for all core packages
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Provide for full test coverage via auto-tests (integrate tclwebtest)
Require full API auto-testing for core package TCL API
Macro recording for creating automated test
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Require full auto-testing coverage for core packages
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High-availability support (webserver clustering support, DB support)
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Basic Services
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User Data Model and API
Permissions data model and API
Content Repository data model
general database API
HTML Form builder
Templating
Comments
Full-Text Search
OpenACS-to-email gateway (Notifications)
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External Authentication
Internationalization
List builder
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Full API for Content Repository
Workflow UI
Context-sensitive help
Categorization
email-to-OpenACS gateway
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Authentication Server
Webmail
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| Packaging
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APM
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Install Packages from repository
Installation script
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Distributed Repositories
Packaging for one or more of:
Fedora, Debian, OS X, SUSE,
Windows, FreeBSD Ports
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Packaging for another distro from the list
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Packaging for another distro from the list
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Packaging for another distro from the list
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Developer ease of use
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Support for PostGreSQL
Support for Oracle
Basic Tutorial
Self-documenting code w/javadoc
enabled in page contracts, TCL
API
Schema browser
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Document Best Practices:
Automatic testing
Support for Oracle 9i |
Support for AOLserver 4.0
Merge duplicate mail
services
Document Best Practices:
simple package using CR
Add schema browser to core
Add GUI to schema browser
Automatic graphical page maps
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IDE (Eclipse? Emacs
extensions with openacs.el?)
Improving existing code quality and consistency
Solve source control issues for maintaining local
development work while upgrading to new releases
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Publish books |
Horizontal Features
(web site building blocks)
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Calendar
Content Management (Edit-This-Page)
FAQ
Forums
Portals
Survey
User homepages/contributions
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Importing user lists
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Foreign integration (RSS, XML feeds, synchronization)
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Universal content repository (moving content between
OpenACS instances)
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| Vertical Features
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Photo Album
Weblog
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Simulation |
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Games
Distance learning
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