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Quick Tasks

• Rework browse pages that make one catalog call per author/keyword/language
  
• Demo del.icio.us implementation of lenses
• Firefox search box plugin
• Hide columns UI
• Connexions blurb on content pages
• In ModuleView, make attributes/metadata URL-accessible (probably just with docstring)
• • Possibly related: for REST API provide a way to tell explicitly between modules and collections
• Metadata enhancements
• • for exported content: license, point to cnx.org
  • • possible clarification of "attribution" to include URL
      
  • whatever cbearden was working on
    
• Do endorsements really exist? How are they used (jcc)
• Simple group enhancements
• • Invites, email
• Evaluate options for Smart Folders
• Rhaptos mailing list
• External service integration for inserting images, etc
• • Flickr, Wikimedia Commons, et al
• Replace multiple getStyles with style registry
• Rationalize macro structure of content_template/collection_view/content_info, esp with regards to custom header
• Store list of contents in ModuleView (so we don't touch CVS to find out if something doens't exist)
• • Try to get module view down to one checkout (maybe associate CVS tempdir with module view?)
• Allow DnD functionality in Course Composer, both panes. (Currently disabled.)
  

Upcoming

• [done-ish] IMS export of courses
  
• Assign global IDs at creation time
• • preview of course with unpublished modules
• Replace CVS as repository for scalability (probably SVN) if necessary

On Publish

• Invent some sort of criteria-based system for plugging in tasks to happen on publish
• Ask for translations for content-view elements
• Log copy somewhere for content recovery
  

Holes

• Export on published courses/modules
• Add retirement ability to content (like deletion, but historical versions still available)
• Course Imports
• • IMS
  • text
  • CSV/XLS
  • zip
• Translation/translated/derivation/etc notifications
• Group roles with "sharing tab" for reviewers and such
• Contextual help (possibly incl. popups) - see markh
• Resurrect previous summer work on diffs
  

Strategic

• Roles refactoring for genericness
• • universal ordering
  • ad-hoc roles
• Push more products out to public (Repository, Collection?)
• • More significant standalone rhaptos distribution
• Etna usability improvements: http://rhaptos.org/ui/editorReview/ETNA%20Heuristic%20Review
• WYSIWYG online editor as EIP alternative (Kupu? other XML editor?)
• WYSIWYG math editor, possibly with external help
• • Etna integration desirable, so Javascript base is nice
  • Jumpstart open source project around it?
• Lenses/User lists
• • restricted view
    

• Author communication
• • Periodic author newsletters
  • Online change alerts
  • • Even to prompt to fill in profile (if blank)
      
• User portal (myCNX)
• Organizational portals with branding and selection of content (lenses)
• • User supplied styles and possibly HTML to insert in header
• print to OO.o/Word instead of LaTeX for end-user polishing (Qoop support)
• multiple names for collections / genericize course to collection
• • multiple types of collections with different behavior

Nice to Have

• Online LaTeX import (working)
  
• workgroup tab forums (previous attempt abandoned)
  
• Viewable/Editable export
• Portlet-clipboard-based cut/copy/paste
• Browse by... unification (ideally one application instead of many pages)
• • possibly using Smart Folders or Smart Folder-like functionality; possibly AJAX-ish for speed
    
  • might even be able to replace Search and Browse with "Find"
    
• Per-instance XSLT/XML. (cbearden request)
• other del.icio.us integrations (search, related, etc)
• Smart Folder use somehow
• Distributed translation engine (a la Clickworkers, captcha defeating, categorization games)
  

Infrastructure

• RhaptosModuleEditor modernization (AT based)
  
• • workflow modernization (DCWorkflow instead of ad-hoc)
    
• Dev infrastructure
• • Bugtracker
  • Proposal/specification-based development
  • • Comment ability
  • Wiki/blog improvements
• Move to PAS, with CAS auth for SSO capabilities
• Upgrade rhaptos.org to Plone 2.1/2.5/3.0
• • Other infrastructure upgrade (underlying software)
• OAI support's IMSMD is totally separate from the IMS export's metadata. Regularize, if reasonable.
  
• [done?] Smarter links (don't assume modules will always have the same URL)
• Hunt down and kill bad TAL (on-errors, existence tests that call things, etc)
• Diff-based skins (done; seems impractical)
  
• • Upgrade CNX to Plone 2.1/5
• Consider making Module Version Folder contain solid objects as canonical, using CVS for backup
  

Long Range

• Distributed repositories

Philosophical

• Choosable ids for modules
• Support XHTML and/or Word native
• • possibly internal JIT CNXML translation
    
  • supports easy round-trip
• Allow more data types to be first-class citizens, or something similar
• • segues, introductions, etc
  • start with images, audio/visual, other forms
  • simple integration into modules, and/or used directly in course construction