Roadmap

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This is a high-level task list. More detailed task list can be found in issue tracker. See also the Changelog.

Milestone: 0.2

Approx. date: 2007-07-14

Complete: 80%

High:

• (70%) Design the structure of blocks and webapp eggs
• (80%) Get familiar with setuptools dependencies and "extras"
• Add rawegg: URI scheme for addressing webapp egg files
• Sitemap mounting via <map:mount>
• Easy deployment using setuptools
• Implemented basic Cocoon sitemap logic and components
• Included a very simple "welcome" webapp into the distribution
• Written the Quick starter guide and the List of implemented features
• Created a PyPI account for distributing releases

Normal:

• Provide some clean and cool examples demonstrating various Pycoon functionality
• Write some Pycoon use-cases (not only Web)
• Create UML component/deployment pictures visualizing Pycoon sitemaps + WSGI pipelines + Python webapp eggs
• Place some samples into webapp/samples
• Add support for absolute cocoon: URIs (root sitemap context)
• Sitemap actions via <map:act>

Probably will be post-poned:

• Add egg: URI scheme for addressing webapp egg pipelines
• Internal redirection via <map:redirect-to>
• HTTP redirection via <map:redirect-to>
• Add basic monitoring features

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Milestone: 0.3

No date set

Complete: 20%

Normal:

• Replace all Environment instances with WSGI environ
• Make tranformers, generators and serializers accessible as standard WSGI middleware with fast ElementTree I/O
• Make sources and pipelines accessible as standard WSGI apps with fast ElementTree I/O

Probably will be post-poned:

• Write authentication/authorization/accounting components, think about pycoon_aaa_ webapp eggs
• Write a Cocoon-compatible pycoon_db_cocoon webapp egg (Python DB-API)
• Write a Cocoon-compatible pycoon_db_bdbxml webapp egg (Berkeley DB XML)
• Add a Unix shell generator, and Unix pipeline transformers

Milestone: 0.4

No date set

Complete: 0%

Normal:

• TODO: Think about BPEL engines and other business process/workflow stuff
• TODO: Take a look at the internal architecture of management servers in various NMS projects
• ...