MoinMoin: MoinMoinTodo/Release 1.2

moin 1.2 was released on 2004-02-20, so this is kept just for reference.

release schedule

26.1.2004: freeze

• do NOT add ANY new features or ANY new strings or documentation needing translation after this date or your patchset may get simply reverted
• TW will submit the i18n stuff to language maintainers now, so that they can begin translating/fixing their language

• translators also should check help and system pages on MoinMaster if they still match the english original

• developers please concentrate on:
  • testing
  • write unit tests - especially for i18n stuff

  • fixing code with minimal fixes, just fixing concrete bugs.

  • improve documentation in source code and for installing and configuration - HelpOnConfiguration etc.

  • do fresh installations just following the docs, fix HelpOnInstalling if needed

  • planning for 1.3 (not: coding, at least not in moin--main--1.2)

16.2.2004: release 1.2

Essential

MoinMoin 1.2 will be released about Q1/2004, see the CHANGES file in snapshot archive for features that are already implemented.

If you want to try or help developing: see http://thinkmo.de/ArchRepository and look for the moin--main--1.2 branch.

Phase 1 is stabilizing the code base (no new features):

• require Python 2.2 (rather 2.2.2)

  • on 2.2.1 following is broken: RandomQuote macro, Page diffs (throws division by zero exception in difflib)

• continue / complete most urgent refactorings, among them:

  • "request" (persistence) refactorings

    • replaced the 300+ occasions of print by request.write() (and don't use it in new code), see ../Release 1.2/RequestTodo

    • introduce request object parameter where necessary

    • remove uses of "string" module, see /StringRefactoring

    • move more functionality to the request object

      • one request class for each runtime environment:

        • cgi

        • twisted (see also OliverGraf/ThoseTwistedFilenames)

        • FastCGI (thanks to OliverGraf)

        • /ModPython (thanks to OliverGraf)

        • moin.py (runs httpdmain.py) for a standalone wiki

        • cli (untested)

      • output

      • webapi and large parts of cgimain.py: mostly moved to request base class and subclasses

      • error output and handling: some log.write and debug.write mechanism (debug with parameter, so it can selectively switched on and off via config)

      • sys.exit

    • move hard coded CGI features to request (grep for os.environ)

  • remove/improve long running code

    • change log file code not to read entire file /LogfilesTodo (will also speed up RecentChanges)

    • Stats must cache intermediate results

• Use caching. see MoinMoinIdeas/WikiApplicationServerPage

• fix plugin loading (long time broken)

• move away from CVS to arch, see http://arch.thinkmo.de/.

• document upgrading process on HelpOnUpdating

  • new plugin stuff, __init__.py

  • themes

  • changes to config vars

• fix AttachFile drawings filename handling.

  • applet seems not to be able to save to SSL sites (file attachments work fine with SSL, so it should be the applet).
• fix MoinMoin/scripts
• add more SF developers, candidates:

  • will add FlorianFesti to SF soon -- ThomasWaldmann 2004-01-04 16:25:30

• fix MoinMoinTodo/ConcurrencyIssues

  • only small and easy fixes. no major changes before 1.2 release!

Improvement on details (these are not hard):

• FlorianFesti: remove/replace /ExternalDiff code

• add timezone setting as a default when no user value is known (especially useful for intranets with mostly local users)

• make cookie expiry settable (future development target should be to have a temporary session cookie for authenticated users)

• updated TWikiDrawPlugin

• clean up edit lock warnings (no verbose comments about expired locks >3h), JS works again, except for a mozilla bug on #preview

These are the tasks for phase 2:

• merged: Page history: radio buttons for arbitrary diffs.

• fix title attributes for icons

• fix page history left column

• refactoring HTML (make it HTML 4.01 compliant)

  • the macros RandomQuote and Include use send_page. This creates multiple divs with id="content". id must be unique.

• use AllSystemPagesGroup (etc.) in code instead of incomplete heuristics

• ACLs and DeletePage

• Make nightly tarball of moin--main--1.2.

• RenamePage - only the basic stuff - expect no comfort.

• more UTF-8 support (../UnicodeSupport)

  • merged: NirSoffer has already done quite much of that! tla branch moin--fixes--1.1

• fix RTL issues with CSS somehow (noticed by NirSoffer): tables are easy with rtl, but if we use left/right with css, that can't be reversed easily. Solution = ???

• #refresh <secs> PI

  • only internal redirects and configurable (None == off, minimal secs value else)

• skinning of some form (../SkinPlugins)

  • themes (other, more common word for skins) are basically working now for following parts:

    • page frame (header, footer fragments)

    • RecentChanges

  • I put some themes into arch:

    • classic (moin style similar to as you know it already, but heavily based on CSS)

    • starshine (same as classic, but dark style and bigger icons)

      • icon for action=raw still missing

• Solve editing conflicts using a diff3 algorithm: ../EditConflictResolution

• fix "de" i18n

  • new system texts

  • cleanup html in i18n (partly done)
• fix other i18n - mail maintainers for other languages

• upgrade moinmoin and moinmaster for public testing of moin--main--1.2 (10.1.2004)

Maybe:

• put ACLs (SystemPageEditorGroup:read,write,delete,revert All:read ?) + maybe a link to MoinMaster on distribution system/help pages

• somebody using moin on win32 should fix MoinMoin/util/filesys.py:

  • the 0xffff0000 raises python2.3 warnings (because it can get positive in future). How to fix?
    • 0xffff0000L ???

  • please test after fixing

  • Should not fix: win32 defines this as a positive value, python up to 2.3 just happens to interpret it as a negative value. Any fix would be broken.

See ../PlannedFeatures for more.