[Meta] GenoRing Roadmap

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To be completed and sorted...

Work done:

• Single command line to generate config, install the system and start GenoRing
• Basic Drupal auto-update through Docker compose restart
• GenoRing module API with
  • hook support (start/stop, init/enable/disable/uninstall, backup/restore, update/upgrade,...)
  • module interactions
  • dependencies support
  • profile support (frontend/backend)
  • no, single, and multiple docker container support
• Local or alternative service versions support
• Basic backup support
• Metadata support (saved in dedicated files, used in directory structure)
• Dashboard
• Multiple and parallel GenoRing instances support on a same server
• Back-end mode support
• File permission support through a local Linux user/group
• Support for non-exposed volumes (file system)
• Local Docker container image building support
• Windows operating system support
• Full system reset support
• GenoRing Drupal module
• GenoRing Drupal theme
• GenoRing Drupal distribution
• GenoRing Drupal project scaffold
• JBrowse module
• Gigwa module
• BrAPI Mapper module
• Simplified container interactive shell access
• ARM architecture support
• Main GenoRing documentation (about, installation)
• Developer documentation
• Module development template
• Installation diagnostic

Next tasks:

• Automate metadata filling (inherit from parent element, default values, etc.)
• Document metadata use
• Allow to enable multiple modules with their dependencies all at once in the start command line
• Handle Drupal auto-update through the web interface or cron
• Provide a GenoRing core update system (based on config with a github API link)
• Provide a GenoRing module search and update interface
• Improve offline/installation support: display a basic page when system is installing or is (partially) offline
• Automated tests for GenoRing core
• Implement Tripal tasks to manage how program execution should be handled
• Chado loading through Tripal
• GenoRing theme with custom image and predefined layouts
• Data model aggregator implementation
• Galaxy module
• Genoboo module
• Gigwa Drupal module with authentication
• Document and recommend the use of WSL on Windows (because of file system issues)

Future plans:

• Ontology browser
• Taxonomy browser
• SSL support (https)
• Predefined user profile (for collaboration)
• Anti-spam support
• Basic anti-DDOS support
• Clouflare optional integration (as a module?)
• Predefined content types (projects, tools, institutes, teams,...)
• JBrowse 2 module
• Merge GenoRing JBrowse Drupal sub-module with Tripal JBrowse
• JSON API use documentation