Introduction

This is a list of milestones for Flax 1.0, vaguely described. Things may well change.

Details

• D1 - Prototype web front end
• HTMLTemplate files for the main Flax web pages.
• CSS for layout/styling of the HTML.
• Python to render the templates as HTML for viewing in a browser.

• D2 - Web server
• Python code for serving the web pages from D1.
• The code will contain stubs for functionality to be implemented as part of later milestones.

• D3 - Filter system design
• A document describing the interface for document filters: FilterInterface.
• A document describing how Flax will run document filters: Indexer.

• D4 - Filter System Implementation
• Python code implementing the designs from D3.

• D5 - Document filters: FilteringImplementation
• Plain text.
• HTML.
• MS Word.
• MS Excel.
• MS Power Point.
• PDF.

• D6 - Document Collection Design.
• Constituent documents specification (i.e. how we select documents of the collection - paths, formats, exclusions, date (and age) ranges).
• Indexing.
• Scheduling of indexing.

• D7 - Document Collection Implementation.
• Python code implementing the design from D6.

• D8 - Query building
• Python code to process input from simple and advanced search web pages.

• D9 - Search Results
• Python code to process the search results return by Xapian

• D10 - Global options
• Python code for dealing with things like the admin password, how results are presented, etc.

• D11 - Persistence.
• Python code to ensure that data persists.

• D12 - Installer
• A Windows installer for the whole Flax system.

• D13 - Documentation
• Administrator documentation
• End user "How to do searches" documentation.

• D14 - Complete system
• Flax system 1.0 completion