Roadmap

Major features are listed for upcoming releases. Other features are under discussion. If you have any questions you can contact the developers on the the silva-dev mailing list or the Silva irc channel (#silva on freenode).

Silva 2.3 (done)

• Migration to Python 2.6 and Zope 2.12
• Ability to plug Silva into a WSGI server (Paster and Apache mod_wsgi support)
• New referencing engine using intids, in order to prevent broken internal links
• Mobile skins with WURFL-based detection
• SilvaLayout is removed in favor of silva.core.layout

Silva 2.4 (3.0 pre-release)

The underlying direction of the post-2x roadmap is to progressively move away from Zope 2:

• For maintainability and durability reasons
• To be able to integrate more recent technology more easily
• To facilitate access to Silva extension development

Features

• Migration to Python 2.7 and Zope 2.13 (Python 2.6 will still be supported)
• Official version of the new document content type using CKEditor
• Ability to convert documents from Silva Document to the new document content type
• Renovate the folder / publication listing
• Finish removing SilvaViews views, and deprecate SilvaViews

Silva 3.0

• The SMI has is Ajax-riven using Javascript and a REST-like API
• Introduction of support for the Public Content Tree
• The new SMI is theme-able (for institutional branding)
• Silva Document is deprecated and removed
• Silva News is updated not to rely on XMLWidgets
• ParsedXML, XMLWdigets are deprecated and removed as well
• SilvaViews and FileSystemSite are removed
• The Silva legacy layout is removed/replaced with core layout technology

Silva 3.1

• Full integration of the Public Content Tree (aka marketing links)
• Native Short URLs will be provided within the CMS
• More social media components
• Mobile and tablet previews (public content tree example)

Silva 4.0

• Real-time collaboration
• The FileSystem Content Tree will be available
• Silva Media Content
• Silva Core Design component: integration of the new silva.core.contentlayout in silva.core.layout to use site wide components in Silva skins

SMI performance optimizations

• Improve folder listing
• Improve sidebar performances

SMI user interface optimizations

• Add a search that let you work on its result as if it was a folder listing
• Add user preferences: possibility to save favorites of search queries and folders for direct access
• Improve reference lookup interface to include different lookup modes like search or a listing of possible items to select (useful for Silva News interface for instance).

Extensions

• CMIS support (client and/or server)
• WebDav/File system based file upload
• Silva WebForms