Introduction

For background on the versioning scheme and development process, see: http://code.google.com/p/screwpile/wiki/DevelopmentProcess

Details

TPR1

TPR1 was our previous release. It has been superseded by TPR2, see below.

TPR2

This release will feature a combination of bug-fixes, code cleanup, UI cleanup, architectural improvements, and feature enhancements. The tasks currently planned for TPR2 are:

• Bug #12 - Make "tag" box work when pressing ENTER - FIXED
• Bug #8 - Get arrows for up/down vote links - FIXED
• Bug #25 - Create scheduler mechanism for asynchronous updates - FIXED
• Bug #35 - Need scheduled job to rebuild entrycache on some periodic basis - FIXED
• Bug #37 - Need scheduled job to update channel(s) from RSS - FIXED

TPR2 was our previous release. It has been superseded by TPR3, see below.

TPR3

Tasks planned for TPR3:

• Bug #6 - Audit / rework code for consistency in handling use of session.user - FIXED
• Bug #19 - Cleanup logging - FIXED
• Bug #2 - Remove hard-coded strings from GSPs - FIXED
• Bug #53 - Entries are duplicated when they are scoped to multiple Channels - FIXED
• Bug #5 - Flesh out the SiteConfig mechanism - FIXED
• Bug #4 - Build a proper Admin interface - FIXED
• Bug #29 - Create UI for managing scheduled jobs - FIXED
• New entries from RSS aren't being added to the search index - FIXED
• Bug #34 - Write a "how is this not Reddit" or "How is this not Digg" document - FIXED
• Bug #10 - Add "create a channel" link to the front-page - FIXED
• Bug #27 - Create new "edit channel" page - FIXED
• Bug #28 - Create UI for managing RSS Feeds - FIXED
• Bug #26 - Rebuild EntryCache when channels are updated from Feeds - INVALID - we don't use the EntryCache now.

TPR3 is released. See https://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick/tree/tpr3

TPR4

• Bug #30 - Write doc on how to download and deploy Neddick
• Bug #33 - Create tutorial screencast
• Bug #50 - Problem with excessive file handles - probably a file handle leak
• Bug #14 - Implement basic access control
• Bug #39 - Add LDAP account code (bring over from Quoddy)
• Bug #15 - New "Share" dialog
• Add more datasource implementations, start on Heceta integration.
• Improve tag handling. Semantic tags, show existing tags, deal with "global" vs. "local" tags, etc.
• recommended tags
• autocomplete for search
• Add top toolbar for Quoddy / Heceta integration
• Start on Quoddy integration for "Share" function.
• Deal with loss of JMS Connection
• failure in one "share" delivery method shouldn't fail entire operation

TPR5

• Replace the current recommender implementation with something based on Apache Mahout.
• Add an Installer
• ???

FUTURE

• Add an integration point for business events and related entities to populate into the system from a SOA/ESB environment. Possibly integrate Apache Camel for this...
• Add content filtering / selection by attributes / regexes / etc.
• Add dynamic content routing / event creation
• Add "guided discovery" mechanism for driving discovery of business insights from content
• Add some sort of "status tracking" / Workflow integration for activities related to content.
• Add concept mining / visualization
• Add visual navigation of the "knowledge space"
• Add "person" recommendations using Quoddy integration, as well as possibly LinkedIn, etc.