Imagecache Actions roadmap

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This is a non-contractual roadmap for the D7 branch of the imagecache actions

module. Actual release dates and completed features will largely depend on

available time. So support is always welcome. Furthermore, critical bugs may

make us release more often, but that should only change the release number in

which certain features are planned, not the timeline.





Imagecache Actions 7.x-1.0

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Targeted release date: may 2012



- (DONE) Clean up D7 issue queue

- (DONE) Commit posted patches from the issue queue

- (DONE) Solve easy to solve bug reports

- Do some basic testing

- (DONE) Reintroduce the text action, currently living in a sandbox project at

  http://drupal.org/node/1090312

- (DONE) Update README.txt

- (DONE) Introduce CHANGELOG.txt

- (DONE) Add this ROADMAP.txt





Imagecache Actions 7.x-1.1

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Targeted release date: end 2012



Mainly a bug fix release

- (DONE) Solve remaining outstanding bug reports

- (ALMOST DONE) Keep D7 issue queue clean





Imagecache Actions 7.x-1.2

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Targeted release date: spring 2013



- Check help and documentation. a.o: hook_help, effect descriptions.

- Continue to keep the D7 issue queue clean.

- Improve Imagemagick support and/or document what effects are not working for

  which toolkit (version).

- Check that all effects implement all of the effects API (especially the

  dimensions callback).

- Add testing. The idea is to create a set of image styles that cover all

  effects and can be used to visually check for regressions.



  Automated testing would be nice, but I am not sure that we can guarantee that

  jpeg or png files are binary identical on each run across different computers.

  But if the number of false positives is small, it would certainly be a useful

  addition.





Imagecache Actions 7.x-1.3

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Targeted release date: ...



- Look at outstanding feature requests

- Continue to keep the D7 issue queue clean

- Keep improving Imagemagick support, a.o:

  - Try to get insight into what version of imagemagick is required by what

    effect.

  - Document which effects might produce different results.

- Refactor code

  - Extract common form fields

  - Extract common error handling

  - (STARTED) Clean up comments, todo's, etc.

  - (STARTED) Doxygen code documentation according to latest standards

  - Increase the amount of lazy loaded code





Imagecache Actions 7.x-2.x

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Targeted release date: ...



- Can we refactor effects into auto loading class based plugins? What does

  CTools offer in these? How do D8 core effects do this?

- If so, will it make implementing new effects much simpler? Because that is

  what we should strive for.

- Should we rename the module to image_effects?

- If we manage to provide an easy to use plugin system, we should strive to

  merge with other modules that provide effects:

  - FiltersIE module (http://drupal.org/project/filtersie)

  - Imagecache Effects: http://drupal.org/project/imagecache_effects (D6 only,

    but are their effects more advanced then our counterparts or do they add new

    effects?)

  - Image watermark: http://drupal.org/project/watermark (D5 only, but is their

    watermark effect more advanced?)

  - ImageCache Scale-9 Actions: http://drupal.org/project/imagecache_scale9actions

  - etc.

