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eZ components 2006.2 roadmap
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Introduction
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This document lists the items that we want to address for eZ components 2006.2.
Each item has a priority number attached to it where "1" means highest
priority.  All number 1 priorities will definitely make it into the release
bundle. If there is time left we proceed with items which have the priority 2
and after that 3.

Additions
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Base
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- Add a new class to the Base package which returns information whether a
  feature is available. The idea is to add a new class to the base package that
  provides static methods to return whether a function/feature is available.
  The system information component gets another class that only extends this
  new class in the base package. [1]

Cache
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- Investigate what the cache exactly can do and figure out if it is good
  enough. [1]
- Add functionality that can prevent multiple requests generating the same
  cache file after it has expired. [1]
- Add a method to manually purge the cache. [2]
- Add a database cache backend. [2]

ConsoleTools
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- Add a list of standard error code constants from "errno.h" [2]

ContentDiff
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- A new component to compare different elements of the same type. [3]


Database
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- Perfect support for Oracle [1]

DatabaseSchema
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- Make it work with MySQL, PosgreSQL, Oracle and SQLite. [1]
- Check foreign keys support in DatabaseSchema. [2]
- Allow schema modifications (if it is not possible yet). [2]

Feed
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- RSS syndication and creation [1]

Graph
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- Finish 3d renderer. [1]
- Finish the date axis. [1]
- Add magic to font configuration. [2]
- Allow writing on an external canvas. [2]
- Enhance SVG driver to be able to inline background images. [2]
- Add a "imagemap renderer" so that you can click on the correct points as
  well with an action. [3]
- Average and other statistical analysis. [3]
- Bar charts. [2]

Image
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- Extend the filters so that the current available ones are both available for
  GD and ImageMagick. [1]
- Add more filters for different effects. [3]
- Add  watermark functionality. [2]
- Create some function to compare images. ImageMagick can be used as well to
  return the difference. [3]
- Fix Exif access and precalculate some values (like focal point) [1]

Mail
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- More Mail authentications [3]
- Mail: Mail parsing Iterator [2]
- Add a fetch function to transports like limit/offset for better resource
  management. [1]
- PGP support. [2]
- Allow files to be added as attachment without having a file on disk. [2]
- Make temp file location for parsing configurable. [3]
- Usenet Transport. [3]

PersistentObject
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- Fix bugs (escaping column names). [1]
- Relations between classes and objects. [1]
- Add doc links to PersistentObjectDatabaseSchemaTiein. [1]


PersistentObjectDatabaseSchemaTiein
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- Make it work with databases directly. [1]
- Adds a scripts supper package that pulls in this one, but also others later.
  [3]
- Add stuff to the script to make the template classes as well as the
  definition files. [1]

SignalObserver
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- Loosy-coupled intra-object communication and event handling. [1]


Template
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- Charsets for Template [1]
- Caching [1]
- Translation TieIn [1]
- User extensions for template [1]

Translation
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- Add a script that checks differences to make translated files up to date. [2]

Url
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- Investigate how to make this better and usable. [1]

Workflow
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- Workflow management component [3]