docs/dev_phases_2-0.txt

   1 Bugdar                                                     PHASES OF DEVELOPMENT
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   3
   4 Because Bugdar 2.0 is a substantial development effort, its progress will be
   5 broken into unique, defined stages. No time will be allotted to these stages
   6 because this is only to group different phases of development.
   7
   8 PHASE 1: ISSO CONVERSION
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  10 - Upgrade the infrastructure of Bugdar to use ISSO3
  11 - Straight swap-out of ISSO2 components to v3
  12 - The 1.2.x series running under ISSO3
  13 - Exception of the Admin CP, because the BSPrinter modules are being removed
  14
  15
  16 PHASE 2: PRINTER MODULE SPRINT DEVELOPMENT
  17 ###########################################
  18 - Remove the ISSO3 Printer modules
  19 - Replace with CSS stylesheets that use extremely-semenatic markup
  20 - Rewrite the Admin CP to use templates with new stylesheets
  21
  22
  23 PHASE 3: REWRITE LANGUAGE SYSTEM
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  25 - Switch from using Gettext MO files to a database-phrase system
  26 - Database system will enable translation of dynamic data (help system, field
  27 names, statuses, etc.)
  28 - Use phrase groups to prevent loading of all phrases into memory
  29 - XML export system
  30
  31
  32 PHASE 4: CORE REFACTORING
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  34 - Refactor core code components to use more API functions to reduce controller
  35 code
  36 - Make projects more independent, allowing for product-specific custom fields,
  37 etc.
  38 - Re-envision Bugdar
  39
  40
  41 PHASE 5: NEW FEATURES
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  43 - Add new features from the bug database and planning_2_0.txt
  44
  45
  46 PHASE 6: INTERFACE REDESIGN
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  48 - Redesign interface
  49 - AJAX where possible
  50