simplenews 7.x-1.x-dev

-- THE CURRENT 7.x-1.x-dev RELEASE DOES NOT SUPPORT DATA UPGRADE FROM 6.x --

Working version for 7.x module development only!

Important changes

New terminology:

Newsletter

A node, to be sent as email

Newsletter category

A collection of newsletters. Each newsletter can be tagged with one categories.

Mailing list

Where people can subscibe to. Usually the collection of addresses the newsletters of one category get sent to.

Subscriber

Someone with an email address that is (or was) subscribed to a mailing list.

Subscription

The subscription of a subscriber to a mailing list

Email options
Advanced email options are no longer available on a per newsletter (node) basis. 'Newletter format', 'Email priority' and 'Receipt request' can now only be set per Newsletter category.

To do

1. Must be fixed before Beta
2. Nice to have

BASE SYSTEM
1. Fix data migration from D6 to D7
1. List of newsletters with views replacement
1. Various TODO's in code
1. Token replacement in node view.
2. De-duplicate recipient list before sending
2. Plain text alternative: #709234
2. Various TODO's in code
2. Add newsletter descriptions: #721504
2. Simple test scripts
2. Multilingual newsletters
2. Reduce the bootstrap memory footprint
2. Make more data available to Views
2. Investigate if Views upgrade is required

ADMIN SYSTEM
1. Bugfixes: Confirm delete
2. Actions in admin pages
2. Better subscription status reporting: #706904
2. Admin page to edit subscriber data

USER INTERFACE
1. Subscription page
1. Simplify subscription block
2. Multi-subscription block: #369733, #208016, http://drupal.org/project/simplenews_multisignup

Additional ToDo

Patches from 6.x to be Ported for 7.x
http://drupal.org/project/issues/simplenews?text=&status=15&priorities=A...

Patches which where fixed for 6.x-2.x. All need to be checked if application to 7.x might be needed
http://drupal.org/project/issues/simplenews?text=&status=2&priorities=Al...
http://drupal.org/project/issues/simplenews?text=&status=7&priorities=Al...