Rejected Feature Proposals

Proposals that have been rejected following the release process

Proposals that have been rejected can be put back in UnderInvestigation if a committed developer alters the proposal or the mood has changed in the community.

Topic	Summary	Tasks Item	Developer	Reason
ActionTrackerDescendingSort	It would be more flexible to have the option for a descending table sort			None
AddAContextVAR	Add a way to display the contexts that are set		SvenDowideit	None
AddAReadOnlyMetaClass	improve internal cachebility of TopicObjects? by differentiating writeable Meta objects.			None
AddCreateTopicToFunc	Add a new function createTopic to Func			None
AddFilterPlugin	FilterPlugin is such a useful thing, it should be part of the default package		CrawfordCurrie	None
AddFurtherControlsOnSudo	Enhancements to sudo login to improve security	Tasks.Item1551		None
AddOrRelationToFORMFIELD	Add "OR" relation to macro FORMFIELD			None
AddRemoveFileFeatureToManifest	Add the ability to add a "remove" status for files in the manifest			ConsensusReached
AddSearchResultsPaginationToRelease01x00	add search results paging capabilities to Foswiki 1.0.x		WillNorris	None
AllowSectionalEditingAtTwikiDotOrg	Allow Sectional Editing At Community Website		RafaelAlvarez	None
AllowUnauthenticatedRESTHandlers	Some plugins would like REST handlers that do not require authentication.			None
AllowWebUsersTrashAccess	It would be really neat if users who belong to a web have the authority to move topics from a web to trash.			None
BlurAuthCookieName	Blur auth-Cookie-Name with random string on installation		GeorgeClark	ConsensusReached
CacheGetSkinCalculation	Introduce+Foswiki-%3E%7Bskin%7D		EugenMayer	None
DeprecateSlashAsRef	Deprecate the use of / for REF in queries, and replace with @		CrawfordCurrie	None
DeprecateUndocumentedSqBracketLinkFormat	Deprecate the undocumented space delimited Square Bracket link format	Tasks.Item10905	GeorgeClark	ConsensusReached
DisableWikiWordsWithNumbers	Provide option to disable numbers in WikiWords		KennethLavrsen	AcceptedBy14DayRule
DynamicallyUpdatingDataFormProperties				None
EscapeQuotesOptionInICON	Escape quotes option in ICON			NoCommittedDeveloper
ExportTableToCsv	Ability to export Foswiki table to cvs format			ConsensusReached
HowToDeleteUserAccount	User interface to delete accounts from TopicUserMapping	Tasks.Item4905		NoCommittedDeveloper
ImproveSupportForDatabaseSearches	Next steps in improving the data store abstraction and search support	Tasks.Item9715	CrawfordCurrie	AcceptedBy14DayRule
PatchBinaryAsConfigureOption	Which 'patch' Foswiki uses should be a config option			ConsensusReached
PreInstallNatEditContrib	Make NatEditContrib? a default extension starting from 4.2			NoCommittedDeveloper
PreloadContribs	Support loading handlers from contribs			None
ProcessAddToBodyStart				None
ReplaceFoswikiTimeModule	Extract Foswiki::Time for CPAN			None
RulebasedViewTemplates	Add a rule-based strategy to AutoViewTemplatePlugin to derive an edit/view template		MichaelDaum	RejectedByCommunityVote
ShipCommonlyTailoredTopicsInConfigure	Configure should install commonly tailored topics so that new releases do not overlay customized topics.		Foswiki:Main.GeorgeClark	None
ShoutBox	Public IM-ing system bit like IRC			ConsensusReached
SkinTemplateOverideForBatchUpload	The batchupload plugin require amendment to three system templates. It would bebetter to have the changes in a skin or template override.			None
SortOrderTagForTopicsAndWebs	It would be usefull if you have a fixed list location for a topic			None
WhatTheFunc	Collection of problems with TWiki::Func that we should address	Tasks.Item1331 Tasks.Item1333 Tasks.Item1441		None
			Foswiki:Main.GeorgeClark: 1 GeorgeClark: 1 CrawfordCurrie: 3 EugenMayer: 1 GeorgeClark: 1 KennethLavrsen: 1 MichaelDaum: 1 RafaelAlvarez: 1 SvenDowideit: 1 WillNorris: 1	AcceptedBy14DayRule: 2 ConsensusReached: 6 NoCommittedDeveloper: 3 None: 21 RejectedByCommunityVote: 1

-- Contributors: KennethLavrsen - 24 Apr 2007