TimCera - MoinMoin

Current Macros

MacroMarket/SQL
- First attempt at a Macro. I actually figured out cx_Oracle install to accomodate use from a web server.

Current Bugs

MoinMoinBugs/PythonLineNumbersIncorrectOnKonqueror
- No progress. I said that I would report bug to KDE, but when I went to the web site, couldn't find a clear place to report Konqueror bugs. Will try again soon.
MoinMoinBugs/TWikiDrawOnDebian
- This is a real frustration. Possible improvement with 1.5?

Current Feature Requests

FeatureRequests/AclExtendedToMakePluginsSecure
- I think this is important for MoinMoin, but only of passing importance to me. My security needs on an Intraweb are minimal.
FeatureRequests/DiscussionAndVoteSystemForBigEdits
- This would be so cool. Actually could be extended to vote for pages, then could find/sort pages based on there usefullness.

Interesting MoinMoin Items

FeatureRequests/WikiAdminGUI
- I think TWiki had something real nice for this. At least for the install.
ParserMarket/Gallery2
- Directory based attachements
  Really need a image gallery that will scan a file system, possibly even write meta-data back to the directories. I added that feature as a patch to Gallery2, but there was significant concern relating to security that the patch was not accepted. Problem which led to FeatureRequests/AclExtendedToMakePluginsSecure. Decided for my own purposes to just wait for Gallery2 to stabilize somewhat and re-add the patch to my own local version.
- imgSeek
  What would be the absolute coolest thing though is to integrate imgSeek into MoinMoin. imgSeek uses it's own database and needs a C compiler, but that could probably change. He is moving from Python (with the C database backend) to C++, but the Python code is still available. imgSeek is so cool! It actually works to search for images that are similar, not by keyword, but by the way the image looks.
MacroMarket/PageComment
- PageComment could, with somewhat minor changes, be a phpBB style forum. I had started a forum macro something along these lines. I was going to keep the threads in sub-pages immediately below the page, and each post in sub-pages of the sub-pages. To make PageComment into a forum would need to add the following features:
  - Threaded discussion
  - Automatically assign permissions of each post according to login
  - Automatically fill in owner according to login
FeatureRequests/MOINphpBB

MoinMoin Questions

Lupy
- Lupy has been retired. Is anyone going to pick it up? Now that Lupy has been retired is it wise for MoinMoin to use it? Divmod is encouraging the use of wrappers around Lucene or Xapian, which means having a C compiler.
I started to write a macro that would do something that I thought would be simple; list out in an indented tree all sub-pages. I can usually follow Python code, but I am really at a loss working with MoinMoin because of the lack of documentation about the API. What methods and data are in the request object? What do they represent?

The "request" object is big and ugly and its impossible to answer such general questions Anyway, to list a tree of pages, you can use code like this:

   1 # This will create a filter for a page and all its sub pages
   2 def pageFamilyFilter(name):
   3     return name.startswith(u'MyPageName/')
   4 
   5 pages = request.rootpage.getPageList(user='', filter=pageFamilyFilter)
   6 pages.sort()

Now render pages in a list, each sub page level should create a new level. This is little tricky, but not related to moin missing API. See macro macro/TableOfContents.py.

Thanks! -- TimCera 2005-10-07 13:14:17

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