BIGACE Development Roadmap

This is the Roadmap for the next BIGACE releases. If you want to see different Features here, feel free and post some comments on the Feature Request Tracker at Sourceforge ... I believe in the  "Community Power", so give your feedback and impact the Roadmap!

Version 2.7

• "forgot password" function
• support xmlrpc api for news

Estimated release date: 30. Juli 2009

Against previous messages, the development of the 2.7 series stops with 2.7. From here on only important bugfixes will be released.

Version 3.0

• based on Zend Framework
• improved admin dashboard (some statistics and links for beginners)
• do not display information messages after community installation, only if an error occured!

Estimated release date: 01. November 2009

Version 3.x

• improve xml-sql mapper (install/insert = only insert, update/replace = insert or update, delete = delete key)
• preview from editor
• new frameless Admin template
• add mass upload for files, probably ftp/webdav/zip upload for batch processing (single file upload is not a good solution in all cases)
• smarty in content pages (configurable and without need for customization)
• uninstall community
  
  • use new db framework to make sure all data will be removed
  • remove data from plugins, using the xml framework to create delete statements for all tables
  • delete path /consumer/cid{CID}/
  • delete path /public/cid{CID}/

• manage all community settings in administration
• filemanager extension as standard application (tree view for menus)
• Extension administration:
  
  • show which extensions are installed (+ deinstall link)
  • list Plugins marked as compatible with the version (as default)
  • list all Plugins (additional link to fetch these)
  • only show admin extension menus when installed for community

• new default template
• allow to save images/files/documents below pages, not only in flat structure
• email settings für phpmailer
• add more events to the core system
• page caching
• workflow and default language for additional content
• real user profile (firstname,lastname,avatar,url,about me)
• permission for workflow only based on current item permissions
• improved error pages as Smarty templates (probably show errors using default header+footer)
• allow linking of content to other pages
• more Configurations for all parts of Administration and Core
• support AdoDB (light?) driver in complete core (currently there are some minor bugs, because of result fetching)