Time to start thinking about Sprint 3.   First task is to round up the wishlist of everything that I might want in the project - the project backlog in Scrum terms.

These are all the things that I would like in the project (in no particular order):^{(Priorities were added in superscript later)}

• Support for German language puzzles.^high
• German language interface for the solver client.^med
• German support in the website with the abiltiy for a translator to gradually translate all the English pages into German without needing access to the Joomla backend.   (JoomFish?)^medium
• Support for editing of puzzles which have already been submitted.^high
• Forum, integrated into the Joomla site (i.e. users registered automatically for both.).^med
• Cosmetic makeover^{low - actually, medium, but not urgent}
  
• Numbers in Ciphers - either as non-encrypted digits or as part of the cipher, at the submitter's option.^high
• Non 1-1 mappings in monoalphabetic ciphers.^high
• Polyalphabetic ciphers.^med
• Colour coding in client, especially highlighting of other instances of currently selected cipher char.^{low generally, except for current char highlighting}
  
• Categorisation of puzzles by difficulty.^high
• Hint Management organised by puzzle category.^med
• Hint selection causes an automatic saving of the puzzle at that point.   Later saves cannot overwrite the hint status.^high
• Submission of user puzzles.   We need some ways to organise these into a separate category from the "official" ones.   Possibly allow private puzzles just for certain users?^med
• Emailing of a puzzle to some third party.^low
• Open Mind Software Company website.^low
• Browse puzzles by different categories, month, solution status, difficulty, etc.^med
• Random puzzle startup option.^med
• Avoid simple matches on "random Cipher" button in submission tool.^low
• Show frequencies in the submission tool.^low
• Allow re-sorting of the alphabet in the solver and submission tools, e.g. by cipher char, by plain char, by frequency.   (Will need re-implementing of alphabets so as not to use the tab-index as an id... Create own IDTextBox subclass.)^med
• Direct external link to a random puzzle asa  guest user without the Joomla surroundings.^high
• Button in solver interface to switch to full-browser outside Joomla framing/return to Joomla framing.^low
• User comments on solved puzzles.   Only visible by and submittable by those who have solved the puzzle already.   Possibly split into formal ratings of difficulty, quality and free comment.^low
• Think about the colour of disabled text boxes (i.e. punctuation) in the cryptogram.^high
• Create an "easy puzzles" area for solving simple puzzles with lots of hints.^med
• Deal with the problem of less than and greater than symbols (and incidentally other mathematical symbols too) within ciphers.   (these symbols are a problem because they are also the delimiters of script for most browsers.)^low
• Allow saving of a set of user preferences against a user id.   e.g. preferred language, preferred difficulty etc.^low
• Add confirmation dialogs to certain irreversible actions, e.g. "clear Solution" or hint selection.
• Add a bug-reporting and tracking mechanism of some kind.   The current one - scribbled into my notebook and crossed out once fixed - isn't really going to be enough.^med
• Implement a build/deployment environment, probably with Maven.^low

So, quite a lot of stuff to weigh up for sprint 3, especially since I have some other, paying, work on at the moment.   In the next installment of this blog you can see what I selected and why.