Roadmap

The Roadmap

In order to reach v1.0 of Revel, we must organize and prioritize the targeted features.

Unimplemented Features for 1.0

Assessment date 2018-01-15

• Main (revel/revel)
  • Modular Session management
  • Add context to template, controller
• Dependency management (revel/cmd)
  • Removal of Revel/revel dependency in revel/cmd
  • Update revel/cmd to make use of skeletons that are in checked out code (not in revel/cmd)
  • Solidify parsing of source files, and use templates defined in revel/revel/src/template to generate main.go file and routes.go
• Resolve bugs / security issues as found
• Document code better
  • Add comments to all function body
  • Move documentation back into source tree
  • Update documentation builder to read from source tree (or switch to hugo)
  • revelframework.org up and running with Revel
  • Enhanced Getting Started Guide (more photos, maybe video series)
  • deployment strategies
    • ssh > git pull > revel run
    • build local > ssh upload
    • CI automated
    • heroku, GAE, AWS, docker
• Update our Web Framework Benchmarks
  • add fast http implementation on top of go http
• remove legacy interceptors and improve docs on new auto interceptors
• graceful restarts
  • current PR requires go 1.8 but ubuntu 16 comes with v1.6, can we come up with a work around?
  • should enable zero downtime upgrades with no initial build lag
• single binary builds that auto expand on app start
• more modules
  • proxy
  • blog
  • viral leaderboard
  • affiliate marketing
  • admin tool
  • auto deploy from source control

Completed Tasks

• Pluggable Server Engine
  • Added Fast Http
• Pluggable Template Engine
  • Added ace templates
  • Added pongo templates
• New Logger
  • Added JSON output option
  • Added context logging to the controller
• Object Relational Management
  • Added GORP module
  • Added GORM module