Sameer found the first feature list for Magnolia. This must have been nearly 3 years ago now (I think we started coding in March 2003). As the chinese proverb goes "A journey of thousand miles starts with the first step" - enjoy!

Obinary CMS OpenSource

Feature list :

Version :1 (very basic)

User Administration

• None
• System treats all users as Anonymous

Site/Content Administration

• Page creating with selected template (user interface)
• Content editing within page (basic text and image editing tools)
• Possibility to create 'n' dynamic container lists (multiple components / multiple paragraphs).
• Image upload (page related or shared images which could be uploaded to the image db)
• File upload (same as image)
• Easy editing for multiple sites, multi lingual sites.
• Easy sharing of content and JSP's within different templates and content pages
• Site structure is not dependent on language or multiple sites , its entirely up to the authors

Page generation (text based)

• HTML
• WML
• XML

Development

• Standard API to create and retrieve content, specified structure.. but not restricted to or dependent on any specific implementation (API handling content storage and retrieval in a heirarchical structure)
• Servlets or JSP templates
• Templates would represent only a way to store and retrieve/display data

Simple caching

• Content caching (text / image)

Staging

• Independent to any implementation, authors will be able to push/activate content to various locations
• Not limited to any number of stages
• Admin and live sites could be 2 separate stages