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 TODO list  This file is being phased out.  Remove your bugs as you move them to 
   bugs.loncapa.org
   
   TODO list
    
 + add functionality  + add functionality
 & change functionality  & change functionality
 * bug  * bug
 ! Priority  ! Priority
 ? Questionable/unverified  ? Questionable/unverified
 c Continual  c Continual and currently in an okay status
   C Continual and in need of a lot of work right now
   
 G=Gerd  G=Gerd
 A=Alex  A=Alex
 S=Scott  S=Scott
 B=Ben  
 Y=Guy  Y=Guy
 N=Hon-Kie  N=Hon-Kie
 I=Issac  I=Isaac
   M=Matthew
   ?=not yet assigned
   
 XMLPARSE  XMLPARSE
     + support text_TAG functionality (Y/A)  
    !* needs to fixup missing end tags in source (Y/A)  
     + add <options> tag (A)      + add <options> tag (A)
     + counters and output formats for counters (A/Y)         + counters and output formats for counters (A/Y)   
     + deregister()  
     + register need to take care of overloading, and deregister needs to unload  EDIT INTERFACE (Y)
     + answer target - for simple display of correct answer for a problem      + have inserts at bottom of page (Y)
       c add more tags (Y)
 CAPARESPONSE.C  
    !+ pass back the reason (Y)  
   
 RUN.pm  
     & ->share() a var rather than pass a parameter? Maybe set   
       a global in the safe enviroment using ->root()?  
   
 EDIT INTERFACE  
     + undo (Y)  
     + delete (Y)  
     + insert (Y)  
     + add more tags (Y)  
     & make it easier to add plain textfield stype entries (Y)  
     + have textfield style entries protect against bad data (</parserlib> in       + have textfield style entries protect against bad data (</parserlib> in 
  the parserlib textfiled (Y)   the parserlib textfiled (Y)
     + make default setup prettier      + make default setup prettier
       + <imageresponse>
       * hints need to be coupled to tag 2 levels up
   
 HOMEWORK  HOMEWORK (Y)
     + need to support /OR (Y)  
    !+ create <stringresponse> <formularesponse>(Y)  
    !+ <rbresponse> <oresponse> need to restore last submitted response (Y)  
     + <rbresponse> <oresponse> hints need to work (Y)  
     & all response types need to be verified about what they do after the   
       answer date (Y)  
     + view problem as specific student (Y)  
     + <imageresponse> needs to be able to support multiple images and multiple      + <imageresponse> needs to be able to support multiple images and multiple
         clicks on an image, need a Java applet most likely          clicks on an image, need a Java applet most likely
     * <essayresponse> needs to protect input / output      * <essayresponse> needs to protect input / output
       * if there are <*response> in a <problem> and there are also 
    <part>s defined the handling of the <*response> outside of the 
    <part> will be done poorly.
       + student should be able to see previous submissions
       + <verbatim>
       + <optionresponse> reports # options correct through a <responseparam>
            (Make editing of this pretty)
       & allow functions in response to be case insensitive
   
 /ADM/GRADES  /ADM/GRADES
     + search for students (Y)  
     & find domain of student (Y)  
     + handle ambiguous case (Y)  
     + back to homework link (Y)  
     + handle extra fields (Y)      + handle extra fields (Y)
     + interface needs to be driven more by the type field (Y)      + interface needs to be driven more by the type field (Y)
     + show only a subset of students (Y)      + show only a subset of students (Y)
     + does IE 5.5 like it? (Y)      + XML upload
     + set all to something (Y)  
     + set grades aren't correctly rendered in student view (Y)  
   
 NUMERICALRESPONSE  NUMERICALRESPONSE(HINT)
    !* doesn't throw error when #response > #answer (Y)     !* doesn't throw error when #response > #answer (Y)
    !* bad message when #response < #answer (Y)     !* bad message when #response < #answer (Y)
   
 GOODIES  GOODIES
     * bookmarks don't work correctly (B)  
     * indexer does not always work (N)  
     + messaging (G)  
     + chatroom, etc  
     + annotations can be localized and published      + annotations can be localized and published
     + PURLs      + PURLs
   
 /ADM/CREATEUSER  USER NEEDS
     * cc setting allows section      & have great installation, upgrading, configuring documents (S)
     * do stu sections settings actually work      & have great installation, upgrading, configuring process (S)
     * dc shows machines not just domains      & have great interface, how-to-use educational system
         documentation (John Williamson)
 TEX/TTH/TTM  
     * Address bugs in tth/ttm (second half January, A,Y,G)  
   
 BUILD  BUILD
     * make sure that ssh is always allowed, even for run-time servers      c test code... up to date with latest CPAN modules (S)
       + allow for debian and redhat 7.1 installation... redhat 7.1
         installation well pioneered (S)
       c add in new perl modules and update old ones (S)
       c build and distribute CD-ROMs, upgrades, and installation/upgrade docs (S)
       c document and reasonably automate aspects of source-to-build procedure (S)
       & loncapafiles.lpml has too many lines (pod2man.sh or pod2html.sh) which
         are over 80 characters (S)
   
   CODE QUALITY
       C code lines less than 80 characters (somewhat done, but now put
         on back-burner till 2002) (S)
       C xhtml-ize output from perl modules (S)
       c add in CPAN and POD conventions into modules and scripts (S)
       c get rid of void context map blocks and replace with foreach blocks
   
   JAVASCRIPT
   #   see CVS:doc/window_handling.txt for initial plans at organizing this -Scott
   
 SQL DATABASE  SQL DATABASE
     *!need to improve sql database security (S)     Located now at
     * need to allow for parsing logic statements for metadata database (S)     http://bugzilla.lon-capa.org/buglist.cgi?component=Searching
     * need to call all library servers (S)  
     * need to show status of library server retrieval (S)  RANDOM BUGS
     * need to perform customized metadata search (S)  
   PLOTTING 
       http://zaphod.lite.msu.edu/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?component=Randomized+Plots
   
 GERD STUFF  GERD STUFF
     + lecture online converter does all types (G/Y)  
     + lond can add UNIX user and change UNIX password (G/S)  
     & lond produces no history files for nohist_ namespaces  
     + pageflip up and down work  
     + feedback, mailing and announcement mechanism finished  
     + londropadd does XML      + londropadd does XML
     +?TAs can open and close assignments      +?TAs can open and close assignments
     *?menu.html does weird stuff on some browsers sometimes (maybe fixed)      +?Students can force-open assignments with instructor notification
    !& tests interaction between parmset, problem handler and spreadsheet (G)     !c tests interaction between parmset, problem handler and spreadsheet (G)
     + course id-field      + replication hinting/prediction 
       + replication, search local access servers if library is uncontactable
       + intelligent update of hosts.tab (don't forget firewalls)
      !* Looks like no window status in IE 5.5 on Mac, Remote logs out
       + change passwords (domain coordinator/users)
       * straighten out co-author, author, coordinator junk 
       + implement initial questionaire
       + summary on top of spreadsheet
       + adjusts output in spreadsheet to type
       + sort courses with same role in lonroles, color scheme
       + fix Applet codebase on .page
       & pages should not register with remote if not on map
       * navmaps displays answerdates correctly (not due date instead)
       + points for feedback, counts on feedback/discussion
       + "do you want to be a tutor"?
       +!interface for checking logs
       + button to show deleted email and to "compact"
      !* discussion for users in sections
       & more informative message for "maybe part of a course"
       * hung lond child - produce status info
       & share spreadsheets among courses
   
 RAT  RAT
     + RAT can set resource parameters (G)  
     *?RAT error line 1413 "insert resource into link" for recon link (G)       *?RAT error line 1413 "insert resource into link" for recon link (G) 
       (could not reproduce)        (could not reproduce)
     + need to be able to evaluate conditions in lonuserstate      + need to be able to evaluate conditions in lonuserstate
     + need to be able to set conditions in RAT client (G)      + need to be able to set conditions in RAT client (G)
     * "finish" resource non-editable      + simple RAT server-side interface
     * unescaped colons in resource titles      * undefined "guff" - maps full of objects value="undefined"
       * bombs if inf-window closed by hand (needs browser restart) 
       * errors, lines 1118, 1119, 2153, 2310 after cutting link in table mode
       + "insert resource in link" shows that it is busy working on it
       & use 'unknown.gif' for icon of unknown file types instead of broken img.
   
 PUBLISHER  PUBLISHER
     * needs to devalidate spreadsheets in problem publishing (G)      * needs to devalidate spreadsheets in problem publishing (G)
     +?does HTML to XHTML cleanup job      * need to clear metacache of old versions of metadata when publishing
     + co-author role respected      + deals with Micros*** files
       *?entering construction space or a directory throws up a 
 VERIFICATION OF CONTENT        spurious error message (G)
     c have TA's do homework (G)      c TEST: deal with absolute links
     c verify internal page links  (G)      c TEST: deal with <allow>
     c verify applets (G)      + incorporate thesaurus/vocabulary
     c do homeworks from home/computer labs (G)      + handle big text documents (?)
     c be always at least two weeks ahead in homework      & do not change everything to absolute URLs, but clean up URL garbage
   
   
   Large Chunks of funtionality that need work:
   ============================================
   
   - Statistics
    - Simple
    - resource analysis class/system wide
    - resource correlation course wide
    - other stats from CAPA
    - Complex
    - foil level analysis/correlation measures
    - derandomized foils analysis
    - have/view reason student selected a foil
    - resource quality, how good is a resource
   
   - Messaging
    - email gateways into/out of the system
    - handle more types of communication
          - messages seeded with data from spreadsheet
          - chat / whiteboard
          - "round robin" feedback handling
                  - "mailing lists"
   
   - Grading
    - simple grading needs cleaning up (see Guy's TODO list)
    - survey data extraction ( stat complex could handle most of
     this)
    - essay / shortanswer
    - instructor / autoget all/none
    - team based submission
    - peer graded
    - peer suggest grade
   
   - homework engine
    - math stuff
    - CAPA problems 
    - <imageresponse> need Java applet
   
   - Exams
   
   - RAT
    - choose parts
    - set conditions
    - language for conditions
    - some kind of non-anti-save
   
   - Publish
    - review step
    - co-author locking
    - auto thumbnail / convert images
           - stricter control mechainsms
                - copyrighted stuff
                - Private stuff
              - ACL? (by author or resource?)
           - update metadata without full publish
   
   - printing
    - tex target (CGI / daemon?)
   
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