Gjallar brainstorm (was Re: [Setools] Gjallar (previously known as Q2) next steps!)

[goran at krampe.se]

Hi!

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane_Ducasse?= <stephane.ducasse at univ-savoie.fr>
wrote:
> Good!
> Do you have a list of topics that you would like to see people  
> working on?

Not really. :)

I am currently focusing on the advanced filtering mechanism. The
architecture is in place but lots of detailed work is still left to do.

I think people should scratch their own itches. Some areas that people
could pick up are:

1. Enhance the integrated Swiki help. It is quite thin so far, but there
is a start and it is nicely integrated into the Form/field framework.
The screenshots shows it.

2. Sit down and figure out how we could let Gjallar replace Mantis for
the Squeak community. What we need, what is missing, how we would set up
the workflow graph, fields etc. Since Gjallar has good email support
including attachments and is written in Squeak (we could easily make
integrations to SM and/or Monticello) the opportunities seems endless.
:) We could even write a Squeak Morphic client or something. A client
could either use Magma directly (perhaps with Chris added krypto) or use
SOAP (which we use a little bit already) or whatever.

3. Add more field types, like a date picker etc to the Form/field
framework. And more validation rule types. This is Mewa/Magritte kinda
work.

4. Integrate one of those nifty "WYSIWYG editors" into Gjallar. Well,
not sure I want it - but its an idea.

5. RSS support.

Well, I can probably sit down and come up with tons of more. :)

One thing I was wondering - does anyone know of any good nice way of
producing documentation so that the end result is PDF, HTML and/or Swiki
style?

Ideally I would like to write in a Swiki style markup - then be able to
use that inside Gjallar for the integrated help - but also somehow
generate good looking an external static HTML and PDF document. Or
something like that. Ideas welcome.

regards, Göran