Orion/Milestone Plan/0.2

This page contains a detailed plan of what we worked on during the Orion 0.2 release.

Current Milestone

RC1: June 10

• Minor page optimization work
• Documentation
• Git Reset to throw away local commit

Future Milestones

Unallocated Work

• Enable the server to be split up across multiple processes (ex, separate search server)
• WebDAV support to allow using existing desktop tools against files on orion.eclipse.org
  • How will authentication work
• Gerrit integration
• User configuration of page (ability to "show view")
• Help/Documentation
  • Help server
  • Story for context-sensitive help
• NLS
  • Client side
  • Server side: multi-locale
• Firebug breakpoint integration
• Editor theming
• Embed Open Social gadgets?
• Plug-in configuration
• Project/file sharing between users

Past Milestones

M8/RC0: June 3

Committed

• Site configurations [blocked on absolute URL problem]
  • Enable self hosting
  • Proper handling of HTTP headers
• Simplify server configuration (bug 336560)
• example page for most common editor embed cases (consumability)
• landing page and extension points for contributing tasks and primary navigation links (consumability)
• Command framework improvements (performance and polish)
  • performance work around timing of menu population
  • ability to collect lightweight info without a dialog
• visual styling updates and polish, icons, UI polish bugs, etc. (polish)
• Dojo 1.6 [Simon]
  • Dojox migration
  • Doc mode changes to support IE9
• Get documentation infrastructure in place
• Migrate to RequireJS
• Extension points
  • Content assist
  • Plugging in different editors
  • Keybindings
• Git Multi-branch support

Deferred

• Concurrency work in server impl
• Three way diff
• Dojo theming
• Plug-in authentication (Authorize access to plugin's services)
  • OAuth workflow
• De-pluginify [John]
  • Merge git and file client plugins
• User name in file URL
• Performance
  • Convert to expire headers for static content
  • Look for other performance gains
• Explore moving from OpenAJAX to bare PostMessage
• Explore WebDAV
• Investigate local storage events for notifying other pages of service changes
  • Validation/errors

M7 - April 29, 2011

• Relicense source code
• Git SSH authentication (using Orion with Github or git.eclipse.org)
• Git support:
  • Finish clone/config
  • Log page (show history for single file/folder)
  • Remote page: push, pull, tag, fetch
  • Support merge workflows
  • Ensure we work properly with GitHub
  • Fetching git log in pages to avoid timeout
• Progress service
• Project proposal
• Dojo 1.6
  • Creating Dojo subset / CQ
• Writable compare editor
• Support Firebug integration
  • Reusable editor container (editor + trim + keybindings)
• Organize/structure CSS
• Import/Export from/to SFTP [John]
• Extension points
  • Syntax high-lighting
  • Multiple file clients
• Handling changed plugins
• Timing problem between preference/service initialization (reload needed after login problem)

M6 - March 11, 2011

• Finish command registry [Susan]
  • "Real" story for editor actions/command contributions from another site
  • Reduce duplication in page headers, etc.
• Cleanup basic UI layout and styling
  • Polish pass on pages, consistency, primary nav and task discovery
• Validation of user input / prevent cross-site scripting attacks
• Basic compare UI
• Finish plug-in registry
• Git Server API: clone, status, diff, index, commit, reset (unstage), add (stage)
  • Rest and Commit only operate on all staged files (JGit limitation)
• Profile page each user can view and change their password
• Minify Dojo
• Extension point to enable different file systems to be used on the client
• Site/launching support
• Copy/move UI
• Be able to make projects world readable (global server setting)
• Plugins stored on server

Post 0.2

• Roles (at least "admin" vs "user")
• Allow admin to change authorization settings (currently vi users.xml)
• Ability to assign specific access rights for anonymous user
• Keybindings in pages other than the editor