My-Plant Reboot development plan

High-level development plan for My-Plant reboot

Phase 1

• Port to Drupal 7
• Expand group module (clade module) and/or re-evaluate D7 organic groups
  • decouple from all content types
    • add administrative pages for managing content types
    • mostly completed in IBP branch
  • handle multiple group-object types
    • for example, a data collection, a tool, a person, a gene, a clade
    • support multiple vocabularies
    • or add term discriminators
  • add group permissions
    • group-level
      • private group (invite-only, unlisted)
      • restricted group (listed, memberships must be approved
      • public (listed, anyone can join)
    • ACLs for content within groups
      • default for group
      • public
      • public, only member comments
      • member only
  • better content subscriptions
• people/profile pages
  • ACLs and public/searchable settings
• better search
  • discovery of content
  • organize some content around iPC working groups, for example
• Authentication
  • API, CAS?

Phase 2

• "Everything has a URL" (in My-Plant)
  • use new provenance and metadata APIs
  • can create group/pages for anything in iPlant
    • DE
      • data collections
      • tools
      • analyses
    • Other products
  • provide services for external products/APIs to hook in
    • access
    • syndicate
    • CRUD operations
      • creating pages, comments, etc. in My-Plant externally