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Priority Doc Request State Outstanding Issues No. of Issues
100 WeNeedAHowtoWeb UnderInvestigation Someone with ThePower needs to make the web 1
Total: 30 Proposals     7 Issues
  DontShipDotPmTopics AcceptedProposal   0
  HowAboutAHowtoWeb UnderInvestigation   0
  ExpandVariablesInEditTemplateTopic ConsensusReached   0
  RcsLite UnderInvestigation   0
  RedesignedDownloadPage2009 AcceptedProposal   0
  DownloadTWikiFromSourceForge ImplementedAsExtension   0
  NewWebHomeForSupport AcceptedProposal   0
  AddSaveProblemAnalysisToFaQ UnderInvestigation   0
  SearchPatternCookbookNestedForms UnderInvestigation   0
  UseCasesInDocumentation UnderInvestigation   0
  NeedClearSvnInstructions UnderInvestigation   0
  GettingTheUsernameWrong UnderInvestigation   0
  DailyBuildAndSmokeTest UnderInvestigation   0
  ExportMoreRegexes ReadyForMerge   0
  ConfigurationChecklist UnderInvestigation   0
001 WhereAreDocsMasters ReadyForMerge Waiting for PeterThoeny to agree how we are going to do this 1
002 DakarReleaseNotes UnderConstruction   0
004 TWikiDistribution ImplementedAsExtension define terminology 1
030 RobotsBlackList ConsensusReached Waiting for PeterThoeny 1
030 DealingWithRobots ImplementedAsExtension   0
075 AddingFormattedTextDuringEdits ImplementedAsExtension   0
087 TopicSaveError NeedsARethink   0
095 AwfulWebHomes ReadyForMerge need similiar updates to the _default web 1
100 PublishCodeUsingPdoc ReadyForMerge install CPAN::Pdoc on ntwiki 1
100 InstallHtmlTWiki04x00x00 UnderConstruction   0
100 WikiLogoUrlShouldDefaultToLocalInstallation ReadyForMerge   0
100 CompleteUnfinishedDocsForDakar UnderInvestigation Prioritising unfinished documentation 1
100 DeleteLockAndLeaseFilesOnUpgrade UnderInvestigation   0
100 DocumentDollarKeywordSubstitutions UnderInvestigation   0

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Proposed text for COPYRIGHT in the TWiki root TWiki (TM) is Copyright (C) 1999 2005 Peter Thoeny, peter #64;thoenyPLEASENOSPAM.com and TWiki Contributors. ALL RIGHTS ...
Proposal: Redesigned Download Page, Sep 2009 In HelsinkiReleaseMeeting2009x08x17, MilindPansare proposed a redesigned download page with these objectives: 1 We ...
Problem: After installation there are a range of documents for the installer to digest. Solution: A simple page to walk through all that they may want to consider ...
Documentation Proposal: some more ingredients for the windows install cookbook Motivation Adding some paragraphs to the windows cookbook might be helpfull. Especially ...
Feature Proposal: Nested searchs in nested forms for SearchPatternCookbook Motivation A similar question was answered in support web ( NestedSearch ) a few weeks ...
ViewAfterSaveLosesText contains some assistance on how to troubleshoot save problems. It should be added to an appropriate documentation page FaQ, or troubleshooting ...
Contents: also see RcsLiteTest Partial implementation of RCS in 100% Perl RcsLite will implement only those parts of RCS used by TWiki. Why do this? Many uses of ...
A more verbose explanation of TWikiForms with TWikiTemplates topics was requested, see Support.FormsConfusion PeterThoeny 24 Jul 2002 Here is the beginning ...
Download TWiki from SourceForge instead of TWiki.org We currently host the TWiki tarballs on twiki.org, which can be downloaded from DownloadTWiki and TWikiForWindowsPersonal ...
Feature Proposal: I am unclear on the whole svn thing (mostly) Motivation I know the key svn commands. What I need, however, is what I'm supposed to do when vis ...
Daily Build and Smoke Test There are now a set of Daily Builds done on SvenDowideit's vmware server, and the results are uploaded to MAIN build output and 4.2.x release ...
TWiki Documentation Request #SubmitNewDocRequest Submit new documentation request Please start a new topic for each doucumentation request. Please scan over ...
This is a proposal for a re design of the WebHome of WebHome. Motivation : The current WebHome of Support is one big mess. It's so noisy that you hardly find what ...
%NOP{ Note: Do not edit this topic, file a proposal in DocRequest #Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE TWikiAdminGroup }% !! Documentation Proposal: Motivation Description ...
Documentation Proposal: How's about a new web for How To documents! Motivation Um, gee, wonderful as TWiki is, it's not always obvious how to do something. Many somethings ...
Feature Proposal: Don't Ship .pm Documentation Topics Motivation Discourage use of undocumented functions. Description and Documentation As of TWiki 4.1, TWiki ...
http://twikiplugins.sourceforge.net/pdoc/ WillNorris 26 Jan 2005 Wow this is an amazing convienent way to browse TWiki's code! LynnwoodBrown 27 Jan 2005 I ...
Permissions of the Webs An table to easily visualization of the restrictions of reading, writing, renaming and etc of the webs. Webs ALLOWWEBVIEW ...
Many TWiki users type in their operating system user name, e.g. rdonkin, instead of the Wiki name, e.g. nop RichardDonkin. This is so frequent I've changed the realm ...
I find the documentation for Twiki hard to read. I do not know much about the twiki community so I have not expected context for this tool. The manual is written ...
Documentation Proposal: Dealing With Robots TWikiAdminCookBook has a section on how to deal with robots I don't know if this is the kind of documenatation you guys ...
Documentation Proposal: We need a Howto web Motivation We need better doc. Many of us have written howtos. A Howto web would be a good place to put them. Description ...
Content included from http://develop.twiki.org/~develop/cgi bin/view/TWiki/TWikiReleaseNotes04x00x00 Comments on included release notes The TOC links on the included ...
I like the Main. nop TWikiPreferences idea, but it seems that the current DEVELOP implementation (revision 5924, at the moment) of FINALPREFERENCES doesn't work very ...
Documentation Proposal: Windows Install Cookbook This cookbook covers installing TWiki on Windows using Apache and Cygwin since these are unfamiliar environments ...
Working topic for INSTALL.html included in root of TWiki04x00x00 release Motivation This intent for this document is to provide a stand alone document with the Dakar ...
Documentation Proposal: Delete lease and lock files while upgrading Motivation Strange errors with attaching files and with edittable plugin. Description When upgrading ...
URGENT! We really, really, really need to resolve where the masters of the documentation for DakarRelease reside. PeterThoeny is I guess working on the documentation ...
Documentation Proposal: The default webhomes are awful Motivation Improving TWiki's look and feel Description Everybody fist opens the WebHome. If he gets a headache ...
Term no longer in use, because it was confusing. See TWikiTerminology for correct terms TWiki currently only has one official package, the TWikiRelease at TWiki.org ...
Proposed handy hint It's often the case that when you are building TWikiApplications, there are frequently used constructs that you want to add to the text for example ...
Sometimes when saving a topic RCS leaves around a file named ,Topic.txt, and from that moment on it complains because the ,v file cannot be updated ... By deleting ...
Black List for Robots Some robots (web crawlers, spiders) are badly behaved and make many page accesses in a short time. Fortunately there is a method to control ...
The set of regexes currently exported by TWiki::Func::getRegularExpression is unreasonably limited. You can currently only legally get a few character classes and ...
Documentation Proposal: Complete Unfinished Documentation For Dakar Release Motivation There are several topics in the TWiki web that have been started but not completed ...
Documentation Proposal: Documentation of all keywords used in string substiutions is needed Motivation I was working on implementing date formatting in the CalendarPlugin ...
TWikiPreferences defaults: Image, URL and alternate tooltip text of TWiki logo: (can be overwritten by web preferences) Set WIKILOGOIMG //TWikiLogos ...
The edit script expands the following variables for WebTopicEditTemplate: Variable Explanation % nop DATE% Current date % nop USERNAME% Login ...
Frustrated with the time it takes to compile plugin modules even when they are not used I measured it, at least for the plugins shipped with the TWikiKernel: Compile ...
Expose the Meta object to plugins For a long time the plugins have been forced to interpret %META tags in topic text, because the TWiki::Meta module interface ...
In section 2 installation instructions found in TWikiDocumentation, it suggests that the person installing TWiki run testenv... but until you do some configuration ...
Refactored from PleaseCreateNewWeb after a conversation I had with PeterThoeny in which he said he'd favour new categories over a new web. 6 Jul 2003 How about ...
MIME::Base64 is now required Looks like MIME::Base64 is now required. This doesn't seem to be documented, and it may cause installations or upgrades to fail. Test ...
In a conversation with MichaelSparks, it occurred to me that we really don't have a good feel as to how many people use each platform. If we did know then we could ...
I typically hit TWiki.org a couple of times a day. The thing I am primarily interested in is traversing between the WebChanges topics in each of the Webs. This usage ...
I'd like to see some or more (if I missed it! : ) ) internal documentation. I mean a document for programmers new to TWiki that describes the Modules, methods and ...
Where is the TWiki specification? I see PeterThoeny refer to things being in accordance or not accordance with the spec, and I'd like to look at the spec. I suspect ...
Upgrade Procedure from last production release to current beta What about to create a document to create this document? It would be a great help to use and test a ...
I don't know what other topics exist, but I'll describe what's needed. There are some particular well known terms that need to be clearly communicated to new users ...
Number of topics: 49

Related topics: WebHome, DocsToDo, FeatureDocumented

-- MikeMannix - 01 Dec 2001

Topic revision: r9 - 2007-12-25 - 21:09:53 - ArthurClemens
 
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