Difference between revisions of "Templates/website/schedule"

Revision as of 09:19, 26 January 2009

Brief schedule

(This schedule is not up to date and will be adjusted shortly)

Tasks needed now

• decide to use drupal 6, or 5.7: 5.x
• decide if UI is needed for submission: prefered is to just upload the template and take all data from the template meta data and account settings
• upload of several templates in one zip file
• decide how to recognize an existing template, and mark as updated; automated, or just manual update of selected template?: manual update of selected template
• make seperate drupal module
• disalow to refuse contact via e-mail (e-mail will be hidden via contact formular)
• enable different content types for the module, like extensions, templates, ....
• info about minimal OOo version needed: taken from mimetype of template
• info about language of template - taken from document character property; how to recognize same template across different languages?: not needed and not possible without an unique id inside the template
• counter: downloads per week are displayed; download total is recorded, but not shown; history per week is kept for one year, but currently not shown.
• generic tracking module for code like google analytics
• define categories like in OOo template manager
• for the Extras-team: Create a bullet-list as a 'How to' for the user under the category "Documentation" / 'get some tips before uploading templates'on the web site. As a task for a later release the Extras will work on tutorials.
• add navigation for traveling through the sites as described at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Templates_online_features in the mockups.
• support all OpenOffice.org application file formats, not only those for templates (st*).
• to be clarified: How do we handle further languages? Currently we only consider english, german and french. What about e.g. chinese?

Tasks later

• use openofice.org login
• migrate extension site to new modules
• migrate from extensions login to OOo login
• enable 'friends of user' to be able to name another account to do same task for submitted content
• use StarOffice Server for generating a screenshot of the template

Tasks optional

• breadcrumb/top natigation path like in NetBeans wiki

Generate Previews of Templates

• (currently taken from template file)
• Use seperate server
• generate access code to deliver preview image back
• http request to server with template url to generate preview for
• convert to pdf, from there to png
• send image back as scp or http-post
• http request on template server to look for image and add to template

Connection to OpenOffice.org Template dialog

• Would rss/atom feed enough?
• Specify content of feed

State of the project

• decision towards drupal 5, because version 6 lacks still some modules
  • 5.9 is installed
• evaluated to use OOo login: works with soap at tools.services.openoffice.org/soap/servlet/rpcrouter, iBISService, isAccountValid
• asked for webserver at osuosl 07.07.2008;
  • http://templates.services.openoffice.org/ is in place
  • site access restricted to user odie password garfield
  • use your OOo login and password at the site
• taking meta data from template: Templates/website/submission
• provide module for uploading one template
• provide a new content module for drupal: template
• general configuration of drupal on webserver and installing drupal modules
  • use http://drupal.org/project/lightbox2 (5.x-2.x-dev because of bug in stable release) for image preview; ability for showing all pages/slides of a template; no mouse over effect - better is to click on image for preview
  • use http://drupal.org/project/i18n for translation;preposition: one template contains exactly one language; meta data provided is in the templates language
  • use http://drupal.org/project/tagadelic for tags/cloud
  • use http://drupal.org/project/fivestar for voting
  • login to site only possible with OOo account credentials: own module
• configure menu/layout of drupal for the template site 95% done
• provide nice theming on the site 100% done
• STALED: Upload of a zip file containing several templates
• Handling and displaying of tags for other languages than 'en'
• TODO: generating of previews with StarOffice PDF converter
• TODO: enable virus checking
• TODO: enable caching
• TODO: send copy of comments to template owner
• TODO: enable update/delete of template
• TODO: enable and test cron.php
• TODO: setup internal 'emergency' page with access data/instruct key people

Tasks for later

• Implement an extended search.
• Add a feature like 'My templates': Organize and manage own templates online. Assemble you own favorite templates.