TODO

The most up to date issues list is maintained here: http://code.google.com/p/echowaves/issues/list

This “TODO”(incubator) page contains proposed features, the ones we still not sure are going to make it in the main code base. Feel free to update this list. Once we decide it makes sense for a feature to be implemented, we move it to google code.

features

cosmetic/trivial

• improve new conversation flow (it is non-obvious what you are supposed to do on the first page you get to once you’ve created a new conversation)

slightly larger

• we will need to have a publicly viewable user profile that might show user email (depending on user preferences of course), users conversations, so that other users might decide to join those.
• categorizing conversations to group them sensibly (about a given project, personal convos, free-for-all, etc)
• images as attachments/references instead of inlining (or as an alternate UI experience)
• different type of the messages, user entered/left the room, topic changed etc…
• highlight users with colors actually probably better to highlight messages with different color based on how fresh they are, change the color as they get older or change status (read for instance, or replied to), this has a dependency on the server push task
• make it work with IE

really big

• add non-browser clients (widgets, Firefox Extensions, cell phones, email gateway, etc)
• a room can subscribe to an RSS feed, and publish those messages as admin messages
• have it understand some level of a user’s “presence”. e.g. “polling for messages”, “window up but not focused”, “not logged in”, etc.
• integration with LDAP/AD for authentication/authorization
• single sign-on (with what?)
• expose echowaves.com through restful interface (active resource) so that other sites can integrate with it as a service building the UI’s they prefer
• implement flash tree view of the spawned conversations
• integration with castavote.custommode.com to let people easily create polls, show the results in the conversation.