ToDo

See also https://github.com/rrthomas/DarkGlass/issues

This list reflects the author’s priorities. If you’d like to help, or you have any other changes you’d like to see, please contact me.

• Have human-readable names for MIME types in download links, and put them in sensible order (currently non-deterministic!)
• Remove file suffixes, and have a sensible priority order for which file gets the URL when multiple files share a name.
• Tagging to generalize file hierarchy. Should work with a search engine. Start by tagging log entries.
• Make DarkGlass feeds “deep”, i.e. all the way to the bottom of the tree from the current object, and tag-based (see tags).
• Factor DarkGlass into a front-end to hulot and a program that actually serves pages.
• Have a scheme for commenting on any page via twitter or email (spam filtered). And by Atom publishing?
• Make nancy as make rule.
• Add dependency-driven rendering, using some sort of make system that can be run manually, by CGI or by inotifyd.
• Convert.pm should be a script again that is invoked by make (how do we know if a conversion is possible? Obvious way is to keep the module so we can interrogate the list of conversions, but also have a front end).
• Add {ogg,id3}info to music tracks in DarkGlass.
• Add date and other meta information to pictures.
• Generalise meta-information? Return a hash for each file from which code can pick out information.
• Look into publishing mail folders (hypermail, MHonArc, or by hand).
• Add “recent changes” back using search.
• Add site-based search back (search results dependent on authentication level?).
• Allow any file to be overridden for presentation by a file called .dg (consistent with directory scheme)?
• Support the link element (should replace the navigation bar).
• Use ideas from Silk, LinkDatabase, TouchGraph and Sylbi.
• Make more secure. In particular, ensure that URLs and file paths are always clean, preferably at the datatype level. Look for other potential security problems.
• Allow editing and file management through the web interface? Or the other way around, plugging into other protocols?

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Last updated 2024/10/29