As of January 4, 2021, this document has been deprecated in favor of a roadmap on PubPub’s GitHub. This document is now a historical one, containing the rough history of PubPub development from January 2018 to December 2020.

Completed

• Pub Node Internal Link & Enumeration

  • Fanfic

  • Spec

• Page + collection merge

  • Fanfic

  • Spec1 (travis)

  • Spec2 (ian)

• RSS Enhancements and Filtering

  • Spec

• Stream default download URL via domain endpoint for Google Scholar (sigh)

  • Downloads endpoint for every /pub/:slug that streams formatted OR latest auto-generated download

  • Change citation_pdf_url metadata to point to new endpoint

• Enhancement: Release URL education

  • Issue

• Inline citation style tweaks

• Fix: Author affiliation in auto-gen PDFs

  • Issue

• Fix: Page block author cutoff issue

  • Issue

• Feature: Linked Pubs

  • Spec

• New: Migrate historical data to new dashboard

  • Issue

• Fix: Page footer logo stretching

  • Issue

• Improve JATS/LaTeX imports

  • spec

    • extract bib/metadata and support references

    • automatically convert images to png

    • automatically deduce image file extensions from empty latex

    • support latex includes

    • better message for latex nested table errors

    • support for in-text anchor refs

    • initial bulk import

• Quality single-pub export (PDF and JATS)

  • Focus on JATS

• New Dashboard Experience

  • Dashboard design

  • Dashboard members (and permissions)

  • New Content Overview

• Pub Header UX

• Custom citation/reference styles

  • Spec

• External links on nav bar

• Landing page

• Community Footer Customization

• Move the explore button up

• Editor improvements

  • Formatting toolbar

  • Performance

  • Cursor bugs

• Rich text in captions

• Worker task optimization

• Editor Performance

• Streamline iFrame HTML Uploads

• Complex Imports

• PubPub Editor Optimizations

  • Write firebase migration tooling

  • Move to native Prosemirror Rendering over nodeviews

• Move away from editor NodeViews

  • Inline footnote/citation UI cleanup

  • Pub Footer Metadata

    • Footnotes

    • References

    • Annotations

    • License

    • —

    • Credits

    • Linked Pubs

    • Funding

    • Acknowledgments

    • Read next/recommended reading

    • Subscription widget

    • Donate widget

    • Badges

• Testing infrastructure/processes

  • Heroku setup

• Document stability & verification process & checkpointing & saving changes notification

• Pub look & feel update

• Pub management update

• Annotations look & feel update

• Sitemap for Google Scholar and other crawlers (https://github.com/ekalinin/sitemap.js)

Past Cycles (Deprecated for GH Issues/CodeTree)

Cycle 10: 5/28 - 7/8

• HDSR Launch Spec (w/MVP)

• Testing HDSR (v6) MVP

• v6 launch plan & language

• GDPR Compliance Implementation (mvp)

Cycle 9: 5/13 - 5/24

• Branches MVP

Cycle 8: 4/29 - 5/10

• Firebase Migration Spike (IR)

• Pub Branch Design - Below the fold (DJ)

  • Typography

  • Discussions

  • Media figures

• Pub Branch Pages (DJ)

  • downloads

  • share

  • manage

  • etc.

• Branch Permissions & Submission (TR, IR)

• v6 Testing

Cycle 7: 4/15 - 4/26

• Merge & Launch collections (TR)

• HDSR Landing Page Design (DJ)

• Pub Branch Side Effects (TR, IR)

Cycle 6: 4/1 - 4/12

• Collections & Object Metadata Part 3 (IR)

• HDSR Article Design Part 2 (DJ)

• Pub Branch Design Part 2 (DJ)

Cycle 5: 3/18 - 3/29

• Branch implementation part 2

• Collections metadata part 2

• HDSR Article Design part 1

• Pub Branch Design part 1

Cycle 4: 3/4 - 3/18

• Branch implementation part 1

• Collections metadata part 1

Cycle 3: 2/18 - 3/4

• Landing page builder

• Download typeset PDFs

• Editor fixes

Cycle 2: 1/14 - 1/21

• Color picker in site management

• Pub Editor fixes

  • Equation editor refactor

  • Citation editor refactor

  • Link editor fix

• Attribution dropdown fix

• Pub title live update

Cycle 1: 1/2 - 1/12

Our first cycle on the 2-week system we adopted in 2019.

• Added rich styling options to non-Pub text editors (pages, etc.)

• Password reset on profile page

• Overhaul Pub link adding and editing experience

• Added flag to exclude Pubs from

• New file uploader interface

• New streamlined Pub editor menu interface

FY Q2 2018-19: Product Experience

• Search

• Mobile experience fixes

• Design cleanup

  • Pages

  • Header bar

FY Q1 2018-19: Version 5

• New collaborative WYSIWYM editor

• Versions and permissions overhaul

• Pages and site management overhaul

• New inline discussion experience

• New tag categorization feature

• Turnkey community creation

• Discussion channels

• New PubPub landing page and branding

• Transition all communities to version 5