CcPublisher 2 Roadmap

This page documents the planned features for future releases, along with outstanding show-stopper issues that need to be resolved. For immediately upcoming releases, target dates are also listed.

ccPublisher 2.0

• Beta 1: December 31, 2005
• Beta 2: January, 2006
• Release: February, 2006

Targeted Features

• Conversion to new ccPublisher 2 Architecture
• Support for extensions and plugins
• Support easy customization by third party developers

Outstanding Issues

Beta 1

• ZCML Packaging
  • When packaging using py2exe, the ZCML configuration files are not accessible within library.zip
  • When packaging using py2app, may need to add additional path manipulations to load the ZCML from the correct Resource area
• File format should be a drop-down, not text entry
• Run initial license chooser download in a background thread
• crash in validation

Beta 2

• Disable preferences when there are no extensions loaded
• User Interface polish
  • App icon
  • Exit menu option disconnected
  • Initial display of menu blocked by license chooser before redraw, resulting in partially drawn, locked UI
  • Inconsistent form coloring on Windows, Linux
  • File icons when selected
  • Initial window sizing on Windows, Mac OS X
  • Inconsistent background between license chooser & rest of window
  • Initial progress bar width
  • "How does this work" button event hook up
• Set default work format based on file extension if possible -- note that this will probably require extending the ZCML syntax to support a "callable" vocabulary instead of static one so that we can show the appropriate sub-set of file formats for the particular DC type previously selected.
• Include new ID3 tagging support

Release

• Adapt file item to file object in pyarchive submission process.
• Implement an extension to set proxy settings
• Extension preferences need some additional structure

ccPublisher 2.1

Targeted Features

• Support for embedding license metadata in additional formats
• Support for localization

Wishlist

• Implement clickable labels to replace HTML window hack