pcplantdb

[John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

This is a big start on a functional spec!  Keep it up, and, can you put 
it in a doc in CVS or something less ephemeral than e-mail so it can get 
worked on/edited/enhanced/etc. and not get lost in the archives like 
previous bits and pieces...

John S.

> OK several things. Not sure if all these should go into 0.2.0, or a 
> later release.
>
> User Login
> ----------
>
> Make the process smoother.
>
> Login/Register box on from page, under search box.
>
> Confirmation of login name displayed on all pages
> when logged in - to provide feedback to user.
>
> Ability to log out.
>
> Display (individual plants)
> -------
>
> Tidy up display of results/plants.
>
> Use appropriate
> (symantic) makeup of titles etc. so that they can be
> formatted according to style sheet.
>
> Cordinate with Bear-Chad for appropriate markup semantics.
>
> Display Synonyms for plants.
>
> Display habitats for plants.
>
> Create a habitat objects (similar to Uses)
>
> Display Native Range.
>
> Markup book references, so clickable.
>
> Display (Search results)
> ------------------------
>
> Allow browsing after first 100 plants.
>
> Allow alphabetical listing. (User preference)
>
> Comments
> --------
>
> Allow comments per section. So its posible to add a comment for edible 
> uses.
>
> Allow new Botanical Synonyms to be entered. (With Author)
>
> Allow new Common Names to be entered. (Poss with Language/Region)
>
> Allow links to other sites to be entered.
>
> Provide a Back button so user can return to plant after entering comment.
>
> Sections
> --------
>
> Allow a new section to be created (not necessarily by anonomous/logged 
> in uses)
> Mainly so I could expand things to allow tanplants data fields to be 
> added for example
> COMR - Commercial application of this plant.
> Happy to do this by direct SQL queries (probably easiest for me).
>
> This will probably need a bit of discussion on the list.
>
> Relationships
> -------------
>
> Allow creation of non plant objects. Allready have a uses objects.
>
> Allow links back from non plant objects to linking plants.
>
> Specifically if click on use=Gum, it would be cool if
> that page displayed all the plants which can be used for Gum.
>
> Documentation
> -------------
>
> Add link to issue tracker.
>
> Add public doc on issue tracker, describing how to use it
> for external users.
>
> Add doc for CVS access.
>
> Add link to Wiki http://www.permaculture.info/wiki/index.php
>
> Wiki
> ----
>
> Tidy up output.
>
> -------
> That should keep us going for a while.
>
> We might want to start doing some milestones. i.e. break the above into 
> separate groups based on priorities, so we can work incrementally to
> final 0.2.0 release. Could for example have
>
> 0.1.7 - User login complete
>
> 0.1.8 - Expandable schema with comments in sections.
>
> 0.1.9 - Good looking output. Feature freaze and bug checks before
>     0.2.0 release.
>
> Comments?
>
> I've put most of the above on the wiki, see
> http://www.permaculture.info/wiki/index.php?n=Main.Features
>
> Rich
>
>
>
>
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