Jerusalem Release - Road Map and Release Focus

Release Focus of Jerusalem Release

• Usability, usability, usability:
  • Web based admin functionality for users, groups, webs, topics
• Bring social features into TWiki:
  • Wall
  • Micro-blogging / activity streams: User generated and apps generated
  • Profile pictures in reports (recent changes, search, ...)
• TWiki application marketplace:
  • Packaging standard for TWiki apps
  • App repository on twiki.org

Brainstorming / Wishlist for Discussion

• Easy copy of image from clipboard into WYSIWYG editor
• DB as a cache to speed up queries
• Wizard to create TWiki forms based apps
• Layout editor for forms based page in view mode and edit mode
• Sharepoint like list feature: Easy way to edit list in spreadsheet mode
• Paste a spreadsheet (TWiki table? TWiki forms pages?)
• Multiple instances of apps
• Instant messaging integration
• Reusable templates: Pick templates from thumbnail (templates can be topics as well as webs)
• TWiki as container for OpenSocial widgets
• Create app page (report etc) and package as OpenSocial widget for consumption elsewhere
• Mobile integration
• Analytics: Pages, usage, recommendations
• Pagination in SEARCH

Release Focus of Previous IstanbulRelease

1. Usability enhancements:
   • Editing
   • Navigation
   • Web based admin functionality for users, groups, webs, topics
2. Good out of box experience, making it easier for non-sysadmins to install/update twiki
3. Performance & scalability: Database backend, caching, template language

Overall TWiki Road Map

TWikiRoadMap:

• Usability:
  • Seamless, quick, extensible WYSIWYG
  • Manage TML code via "sectional edit" widgets
  • Point and click permissions
  • Flow of manipulating content: File upload, more screen,... Drag and drop file attachments
  • Copy existing page to make new page
  • Clean up diff's presentation of page history
• Performance & scalability:
  • Fast structured queries
  • Fast text search including attachment content
  • SQL Storage back-end that scales to gazillions of pages with compatibility and audit trail
  • Address high traffic bottlenecks by e.g. implementing caching
  • Topic Object Model
  • Archive Data
• Application platform:
  • Easy ways to build & exchange applications & component
  • TWiki API for Java programmers
• Internationalization:
  • Full UTF-8 Support (including WikiWords),both LR and RL.
• Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) Features:
  • Ad-hoc creation of communities, invite to community, join/leave a community
  • ESN specific search
  • Definition of standard ESN fields and their relation to LDAP
• Mashups:
  • Easy ways to mash up different data sources & applications (XML/SOAP/JSON/OpenSocial toolkit)
  • Tight Integration with other related applications, such as Sharepoint, Google Search Appliance, SalesForce, Bugzilla, Nagios
• Skins:
  • Stable template baseline for skins
  • Easily customizable skin
• Administration:
  • Improved User, group and other management
  • Add site metrics, User page views, user page adds over time
  • Content converters to import content from other wiki platforms
• Documentation:
  • Reorganize and polish content of the TWiki distribution to be more accessible, not only for TWiki Administrators or developers
  • Refactor TWiki.org site navigation and presentation to be more accessible by evaluators and press/bloggers

-- Contributors: PeterThoeny - 2011-08-11

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