[meta] Roadmap and plans

This is just a writing-down of plans, to capture things I want to do. Feel free to join the discussion (and the work!) – the point of me writing down things here is that they should be open for anyone.

Things to evaluate on skillcompass.org

* Is the "relations" tab on topics useful at all? (probably not)
* The terminology. (For example: "resource collections" -> "resource lists", "topic" -> "skill", "resource" -> "??", and so on.)
* Usability.
* Should search functionality be turned on?

Important and easy

* Update the README.
* Update the project page description.
* A pane with "this resource appears in these collections".

Important and difficult

* Get feedback from users (including myself).
* Rewrite all the plans.
* More tests. Consider SimpleTest for the custom code.
* Investigate how much functionality can be localized out of the box, and how much work it is to fix the rest.
* Make the topic trees accessible for screen readers, or have an alternative that is readable. (Easy when/if DraggableViews starts supporting tree structures + Entity Reference fields.)
* A content type for collecting topics into a course (or some other appropriate name).
* An "Assessment" feature, where teachers-users can note assessments on student-users' skills on topics.
* Have the relations between learning resources and topics votable, so resources (1) can move around with a growing topic tree and (2) have a way to find the most relevant/representative resource for a topic.
* Allow the topic tree to be loaded with a selected item expanded and active. This would allow including the topic tree(s) on the topic pages, which would make a lot of sense.

Easy

* Revisited: #1513198: Allow Views export of all style settings and #1513462: Implement new API from Graph API to allow exporting engine settings
* RSS feeds for resources on a given topic.
* RSS feeds for new topics. (And sub topics to a given topic?)
* Screencasts describing how Skill Compass is built.
* Prevent duplicating title of topics?

Difficult

* Add panes for creating reverse relationships. (Not only "this topic requires" but also "another topic requires this".)
* Allow the topic trees to show whether you have mastered a topic or not. (Requires patching the JIT.)
* Consider (again) using the Relation module for the topic relations.
* Get nice progress bars for earned points.
* Get the lists of learning resources to display stars (or progress bars) instead of flat percentages.
* Get a nicer implementation of the microdata used for Drupal project references, see #1513648: Get better display of Drupal project microdata.
* #1512370: New div added on every vote click
* Allow a nice 'upgrade path' if you enable topic relations *after* you have created topic references manually.
* Allow an easy way to create sub topics, super topics, required topics, lead-to topics and also learning resoruces – with references/relations created automatically.

Really difficult

* Make Flag exportable in a sane way, or replace it with something like Relation + a cool widget.
* Generalize the 'isapartof' and 'requires' relationships. In a perfect world, this would be a widget for the Entity Reference field.
* Performance tests.
* Change topics into taxonomy terms. (Which requires that you can flag any entity, or that you have a good replacement for Flag.)
* Make stuff look good.

Think more about

* Add a new learning resource type 'exercise' or 'problem', to which 'solution' content can be added? Could be a good thing to encourage people to post alternative solutions to practice problems. (Could even be a way to organize Q/A, I guess, but practicing problems probably are rather different from real-world problems people want help with.)
* Allow one-off super votes on topic relations, giving +100 instead of +1?
* Add functionality for merging topics?
* Add functionality for splitting topics?
* Add more sub functionality, using topics as something similar to OG groups – such as having Q/A forums on topics?
* Allowing a fallback "is a part of" topic, adding new topics to the "uncategorized" super topic (or something).