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TODO: user-facing documentation on piny-web
TODO: help system on pinyshell (display on login)

It'd be nice to maintain feature parity between command line access and web access.

[[!table data="""
feature				|command line						|web
anonymous account creation	|DONE: ssh createuser@piny.be				|TODO: CGI frontend to adduser
password modification		|DONE: /srv/rbin/passwd					|TODO: Authen::PAM chauthtok CGI jblake: the pam interface was *really* not designed with http in mind though if you hard-code the interaction script it's not hard at all
repo creation, deletion		|DONE: /srv/rbin/newrepo, rmrepo, lsrepo		|TODO: CGI frontend
repo user management		|DONE: /srv/rbin/addaccess, rmaccess, lsaccess		|TODO: CGI frontend
[[mailing list addition|mail]]	|TODO: /srv/rbin/addlist, dependent on getting sympa up |TODO: CGI frontend
authorized_keys modification	|DONE: /srv/rbin/readkeys, writekeys, appendkeys	|TODO: CGI frontend, though i am not convinced anyone would care
disable password auth if ssh key|TODO							|Ha ha NEVER
commit access			|DONE: git+ssh://piny.be/srv/git/whatever.git		|DONE: Ikiwiki+mod-auth-sys-group/mod-auth-pam, though I am told there is a magic hook to allow public editing through git://
wysiwyg editing tool		|Ha ha no						|TODO: wmd a good option, though needs UI tweaks
fork				|TODO: /srv/rbin/fork					|TODO: CGI frontend
upload and commit container contents 	|no						|TODO: CGI frontend
user or repo activity data aggregation	|TODO: /srv/rbin/activity			|TODO: rss generation, possibly install a dynamic rss reader
help system			|lock down 'man', print introduction on login		|command documentation should be rendered online, perhaps
config tweaking			|PARTIAL: pinyconfig					|TODO: CGI frontend
"""]]

Needed config tweakables

- TODO: ikiwiki-editable vs. git-only
- TODO: toggle ikiwiki autoindexing
- TODO: optional use of repository subdirectory as srcdir
- TODO: globally readable repos vs. group readable repos
- TODO: globally writable repos vs. group writable repos
- TODO: editable ikiwiki templates vs. default layout
- TODO: user-configured domain vs. default piny domain

Other

- TODO: overall site layout/theme/css
- TODO: front page to piny server editable by sysadmin ("here's what's on this server; readme; faq; about;")