An interesting new capability for fossil could be the following: That it allowed to have more than one tickets list, with different tables and reports in every list. This could have several advantages:
1- Keep a completely separated list for bugs and for new features, for example 2- Use fossil as a tool or library for other apps in order to access a dabatase with tables with full history and with easy syncronization. This is something that sqlite does not offer by itself RR 2012/7/3 Stephan Beal <[email protected]>: > Hi, all! > > About 5 minutes ago i got home from the all-day meeting with list members > Richard (DRH), Bernie, and Gary (what are the odds - the meeting is in > Germany and 3 of us 4 carry American passports), and now i've got a small > hill of notes scribbled on the back of business cards and yellow sticky > notes... > > Wow, what a day. > > We didn't actually get around to hacking. Rather, we had an 11-hour series > of discussions, starting off with an introduction to Fossil (for the benefit > of colleagues of mine who dropped in and as a practice run for DRH's > presentation this coming Sunday at a TCL conference). We discussed areas for > improvement and came up with some cool new TODOs, none of which either he or > i will get a chance to work on anytime soon :/. > > Some of the ideas we tossed around as TODOs include (@Bernie/Gary/Richard: > please ammend if i have left something out): > > - Mozilla's RTF editor as a wysiwyg wiki (possibly embedded docs?) editor. > We looked closely at this and it this will not be nearly as much work as i > first anticipated, but we will have to munge the output just a tiny bit to > suit or needs. > > - Adding more metadata to wikis, e.g. a title field. We might embed this > into the wiki content using a new wiki tag or similar. We will have to > enable the "style" attribute on tags in the wiki content (style is currently > filtered out by the wiki out of safety concerns), and if anyone can name a > concrete security reason why that would be a Bad Idea, please speak up! > > - We might (might!) use jQuery simplify the client-side implementations. > This would include a new config option which specifies whether an embedded > copy of jquery should be served or a copy from e.g. a Google CDN (offline > usage requires an embedded copy). > > - Adding a system for integrating "custom pages" to fossil repos, e.g. > /myCustomPage, which would call content stored in the db. The original idea > was to use this as a new layout mechanism for the site, but we think that > this could possibly be used to reimplement some of the current "static" > pages . Part of this would include a templating mechanism. The pages could > have security restrictions and could be flagged as syncable/clonable (or > not) by the site admin (only admin users would be able to create/edit such > pages). A logical extension of this would be to build up snippets/widgets > which users can use to customize their pages (e.g. embedding a mini-timeline > overview in their home page). > > - The JSON API already provides a good deal of what some of the above would > need, and it might become activated by default. Before this happens, a full > audit of the code is necessary, as well as stress tests to check for memory > mishandling and whatnot (a "fuzzer" test - i learned a new word today). > > - "External repositories" (a-la SVN or git modules) came up once or twice, > but we didn't actually discuss adding it to fossil. i'd like to throw it out > there as a potential TODO, though. In short, this allows one to "embed" > external repos as subdirs of one's own repo, and is normally used to pull in > 3rd-party code upon which an app depends. A local pull would also pull > x-repos, but they would not participate in push (that might be the next > step, of course). > > - Fossil timeline graph in CLI mode (like git). Several other git-like > features came up but i do not recall what they were :/. (@self: remember to > put DRH in touch with your libgit2 contact.) > > In the 11 hours we discussed a great deal, and there was certainly more that > i missed altogether or didn't manage to jot down, and i would ask the other > attendees to extend the above if i've left anything interesting out. > > @non-attendees: i intentionally left some of the above quite vague to try to > spark your imaginations. Some of the topics we discussed in some detail, > including potential implementation strategies, but rather than describe that > i'd like to hear what ideas others can derive from the descriptions above. > > i unfortunately failed to take any pictures except one of the whiteboard. :/ > > We would love to hear your thoughts/elaborations on the above ideas. > > Happy Hacking! > > PS: Please pardon my brevity and typing mistakes - i'm on a tablet. > > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
