Release 1.5.0 was released 2006-01-07. See MoinMoinBugs and MoinMoinRelease1.5/CHANGES.

Features planned for release 1.5

This is an incomplete list, and in no way an obligation the features will appear in that release. Please add user's contributions and wishes to the relevant section.

Done

Features likely to appear in the next release:

• GUI editor based on FCKeditor (the current editor will also still be there, choose freely!)

• some new interwiki features

• sharing of user accounts in a wiki farm (similar to MoinMoinIdeas/SharedAccounts)

• making it possible to give users and user groups limited admin rights

• some stuff from EditorRedesign like better screen layout (more space to EDIT)

• Require Python 2.3. It won't run with less, for sure. Think about upgrading to some recent python.

• optionally use sendmail instead of SMTP

• Integrate Nir's error handling code from fix branch

• ErrorHandlingInPlugins

• DespamAction

• Make Moin friendlier to caching proxies

• SettingsCleanup

• add ondoubleclick action to open the editor (if activated) also to diff pages in addition to view mode

• Show gui editor links in the editbar and in the text editor only when it is available

  • create gui editor link using dom

  • Firefox 1.0.7 Mac/Windows 2000/Linux?

  • Safari (Mac OS X 10.3)

  • IE 6 Windows 2000

  • Opera 8.02/Linux (has no designmode, thus must show text editor)

  • shows text editor only in Opera v8.5 on WinXP

  • shows text editor only in Safari 2.0 (412.2) on Mac OS X 10.4.2

• reduce space above the first headline

• Automatic account creation. Thanks to DavidLinke for testing basic auth and sspi auth and autocreate. A help page was created HelpOnAuthentication.

• check error handler for broken themes (just wrongly indent some code line to see it)

• merge postmodern into modern

• FeatureRequests/ThemeChange and afterwards check display / usability of other themes

• check global and local dict (see DebianPatches)

• test moin_dump operation, esp. referenced attachments dumping

• fix some bugs in the theme editbar

• fix some bugs in the theme header

• WsgiRequestPatch - merged, still untested, but noone seems to care anyway

• Support Unicode mail_from e.g mail_from = u'Jürgen Wiki <noreply@example.com>'

  • tested with Nir's ISP SMTP and Apple Mail

  • Test with other mail clients and SMTP servers

  • Test with new sendmail option

• PackageInstaller

  • add "superuser" role, defined by a list of users in wikiconfig

  • cleanup docs and move to MoinMaster

  • MultipleLanguagesSupport/Problems - we use PackageInstaller now for installing additional language help and system pages on SystemPagesSetup. The .po language support isn't packaged / supported yet, but permanently installed for all languages.

Release schedule

• 2005-10-15 remove TODOs that are not being worked on in main branch

• 2005-11-01 FeatureFreeze, beta1

• 2005-11-03 notify translators (*.po mainly, wiki pages still unstable)

• 2005-11-xx more betas, work on moinmaster docs

• 2005-12-19 CodeFreeze, RC1

• 2005-12-21 notify translators again (*.po + wiki pages)

• 2005-12-24 translators should have finished their stuff on MoinMaster

• 2006-01-07 Release 1.5