Deki musings

I like lists. Especially outlined lists ;)

• Permission system improvements
  • Advanced perm dialog (duh!) Done in Lyons
  • Expose restrictions via API
  • New permission operations: COMMENT, USERADMIN, STYLEADMIN, SERVICEADMIN, CONTENTADMIN (#4835, 4123)
  • Archive persists page restriction (#4855)
  • Expiring grants (invites? control panel screen to manage invites?)
  • Undo permission change
  • Operation conrolling visibility of user list (/@api/deki/users/*). (forum)
  • Ability to see older revisions of content (forum and forum)
  • Special group containing all registered users
• Recent changes + page history
  • Filtering and aggregation of RSS feeds
  • Filter by language, change type (page, attachment, comment, tag, etc), user
  • Aggregate feeds from other wikis/bug trackers/svn/etc
  • page history needs to include properties, attachments, comments
  • Minor edits and automatic revision squishing (forum bug)
• Per user watch list redesign
• Tagging API
  • Find tag by substring Done in Lyons
  • Decouple from lucene Done in Lyons
• Comment API
  • Retrieve global comments. Done in (#5321)
    
    • Filter by page and optionally descendants Done in Lyons
    • Sort by date Done in Lyons
• Usage stats exposed via API
  • get: users
    • Count page edits, comment posts, per user. Sort by these fields
    • Expose timestamp of a users last auth. Allow sorting by this field
    • n most recent pages edited
  • Consider API around recent changes
  • Popular pages
    • by activity
• Notification API (SUBscribe api allows custom PUBlishing) Done in Lyons
• User/Page/Attachment properties API. Done with Property API
• Integrate/Test attachment rewrite Done in Lyons
• External authentication
  • External users can join groups upon addition (#4772)
  • Automatically rename users upon login if the external account's display-name does not match the username
  • Implicit external user creation can be disabled with configuration
• User delete! seriously.
• Nested LDAP groups (#3118, patch) Done in enterprise ldap
• Refactor API data access (*DA) to not require a running Deki instance
• OpenID support
• Collaboration features
  
  • Allow inline annotation: user comments regarding a selection of text or section.
    • Perhaps use existing comment system for storage and add tags within the xhtml content referring to specific comments
  • Built in svn-blame like feature allowing you to see who contributed what
• Structured page creation
  • At page creation a page type is chosen from a set of user definable types
  • A page type may define
    • default/required/optional/inherited properties
    • default tags
    • default template
    • default subpages
• Configurable user preferences
  • Allow setting the default homepage of a user