Drupal Roadmap, Proposal

This is a summarised and ordered version of the thread on drupal.org “battle plans”. - Usability improvements [Dries, Chris Johnson]

• Change all browser-visible references to “node” to something that might make sense to someone who is not a computer geek. [Chris Johnson]
• Create a node zero feature that allows to create a custom node to be displayed to someone who visits and has no other access at all. [Chris Johnson]
• Make it possible to rename things like nodes and blogs without incurring the high overhead that locale.module incurs to do so. [Chris Johnson]
  • Core (modules)
  • Theme system improvements. [MegaGrunt, adrian]
  • apart from my phptemplate based theme for 4.4.0 , i want to enable drupal to use generic templating engines (ex: smarty, xtemplate, php templates and phptal) without any problem, as well as syndication of themes/templates using the install subsystem. [adrian]
  • Extend xTemplate to make it possible to customised sections of a site through multiple CSS style-sheets. [MegaGrunt]
  • Profile module improvements [Dries, adrian]
• make the new profile module adapt to user->user relationships [adrian]
• integrate buddylist module [Adrian]
  • Forum module improvements [Dries]
  • Aggregator module improvements [Dries]
  • User system imporovements [javanaut]
  • Have user_access() take an additional optional parameter of which uid to compare against the given access type. [javanaut]
  • Navigation or Configurable menus [Dries, anarcat, Bèr, JonBob]
• order the _link() hooks [anarcat]
• getting a unified navigation method into drupal. [Bèr]
• Get some other navigation methods deprecated by The One Navigation [Bèr]
• Make menusystem be able to be presented in different ways by the theme [JonBob]
  • Internationalisation [matteo, Bèr, jareyero, Jose A Reyero]
  • Combine l18n, translate_node and localisation [matteo, Bèr, Jose A Reyero]
• improving translate_node.module [Bèr]
• Vocabulary and term I18n (terms and vocabularies are translated in locale) [matteo]
  • Extend it to have any table translated, not only the node table [jareyero, Jose A Reyero]
  • Permission System [JonBob]
• Node based access [Chris Johnson]
  • Multiple roles per user [irwin]
  • User-defined custom groups [irwin]
• Simple per-node privacy control [irwin]
  • Search Improvements [davidm]
• Taxonomy search [davidm]
  • Attachements/files [nedjo]
  • Get image handling and display into the core for 4.5, a priority mentioned by others. [nedjo]
  • Filter system improvements [matteo]
• Node type filtering (more than one node type can be specified as a filter) [matteo]
  • Introduce Locking [Jeremy@kerneltrap.org]
  • Install System. Which will hopefully be used to install the base system, contrib modules and possibly even themes by the next version [adrian]
• Wizard system , for creating multi page submissions .. to be primarily used in the Install system [adrian]
• Make drupal more fault tolerant, for example allowing it to start up completely without needing a database connection.[adrian]
• Multisite configuration patch .. atleast pushing for it to be made through, as this opens up a lot of interesting possibilities for the install system [adrian]
  • Reimplement, create and upgrade contributed modules [TheLibrarian, JonBob, eap1935, javanaut]
• bibliography.module [TheLibrarian]
• importpage.module [TheLibrarian]
• pdfview.module [TheLibrarian]
• htmltidy.module [TheLibrarian]
• thumb modules [eap1935]
• extending and promoting flexinode.module [JonBob]
• Get the mailhandler module to handle attachments in a more elegant way [javanaut]
• Finishing Movable Type import script [Junyor]
• Possibly creating a Blogger import script [Junyor]
• Cleaning up comment validation and saving in comment.module [Junyor]
• User Accounts stored in LDAP [tfiske]
  • Reimplement and upgrade contributed themes [javanaut, kika]
• Dtheme [javanaut]
• improving core themes and adding additional CSS files for Chameleon theme [kika]
  • Various
• raising a drupal website with the ecommerce module to let people bid for new functionality [bertboerland]
• Reimplementing hooks [Jose A Reyero]
• Drupal.org improvements [kika, Junyor]
• help re-architecting Drupal.org site (track the project “Drupal.org maintenance”) [kika]
• improve visual presentation, usability and accessibility on everything Drupal [kika]
• Help with documentation updates [Junyor]