Todo list for my thesis

todo.md

THESIS TODO

An annotated to do list for itpirl.com sorted by priority (top is highest priority).

TODO

• Fix Calendar Authentication : Calendar events are broken when hosted on Heroku.

• Event view : Sorting & time formatting of event views, categorization, filtering

• Initiate IRC Client per user : All chat traffic is going through one instance of the IRC Client. This is non ideal. Instantiate a new client for every visiter to the website.

• User List : Key to knowing who is in the room

• Multiple Rooms : I don't know how to get Shep into every room yet but I haven't tried.

• Shep help panel : eliminate shep help command and instead have a pop up, like Google's ? keyboard shortcut.

• LDAP : This is a big one. However not really a functional issue. Get it working, then make it secure.

• Transition EVERYTHING to Redis? Get rid of itp-api, or at least decouple from my thesis. Advantage: FASTER, Disadvantage: more work, need to make sure that redis info is indeed archived.

Shep Scripts

Estimate each script to take 0.5-2 hours.

• Quotable Faculty : Allow students to add quotes attributed to faculty/staff (shep dano said _____) as well as get random quotes (shep quotable dano). And (shep quotable) gives a random quote and lists all people eligible to be quotable. Stored in redis.brain

Recommended by David Nolen

• Loaned Items : Keep track of who loans what to whom and when it gets back. Stored in robot.brain

    		shep i loaned ____ my ______
    		shep _____ returned my _____
    		shep what have i loaned | on loan
  

Idea from Saraswathi's Loaned Items Spreadsheet

• Access to Calendar events. Prerequisite: getting Calendar on ITPIRL working.

• Ask : Students can ask questions to Shep. How are these questions promoted? not sure.

• Rooms : API to Rooms calendar, see what's available.

• Working on : Store for 1 week what someone is working on. Stored in redis.brain. On Fridays, erase this.

    		shep i (working on|made) _____