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    settings
    file_storage
    backups
+   pending_work
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+===========
+OCR backend
+===========
+
+Test writing
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+All view and API tests must test each view in at least two ways:
+
+- Object creations views must be tested with and without permissions.
+- Object detail, list and delete views must be tested with and without
+  object access.
+
+All view and API tests must assert the status code of the response even
+when the expected status if HTTP 200.
+
+
+Pending tasks
+-------------
+
+These are task that need to be completed but are missing a dependency or
+a design decision. As more information is added to each, they should be
+converted into a MERC.
+
+API
+~~~
+- User API edit view: Should not be able to add of remove groups without
+  corresponding group access.
+- User group list API get & post views: Should adding a group to an user
+  via the API return 201 or 200. Currently returns 201.
+
+Caching
+~~~~~~~
+- Size limited caching. A new model in the common app will keep track
+  of all cache files. A manager method will be provided that will
+  return the cache files in other of age to be deleted.
+
+Forms processing
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+- Remove usage of self.cleaned_data. Use self.clean_data instead.
+
+Metadata
+~~~~~~~~
+- Metadata lookup memory. Add a select2 style widget that will query a
+  new metadata API endpoint that will return all used values so far.
+
+Notifications
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+- Fix notification duplication of global & per document subscription
+  notifications.
+
+Other
+~~~~~
+- Python based Javascript package manager. Each app specifies what
+  library and version needs. The common app (or a new app) will add all
+  the JS loading lines automatically so that compress can detect them.
+- When moving documents to the trash update the message to "submitted"
+  and not "moved" or "deleted" since this is handled by a task queue
+  and is not immediate and doesn't delete the document.
+- When emptying the trash update the message to "submitted"
+  since this is handled by a task queue and is not immediate.
+- New app that allows creating user document filters. Will provide the
+  same service as the document filters class. Interface can be made
+  using the template language or the same UI as the smart links.
+- Allow add queue metadata that can be exported via a management command.
+  This will allow creating supervisor templates without all the worker
+  entries being hardcoded.
+- Delete .gitignore files from copied packages. Include .gitignore files
+  keep compiled or distributable files from being included in the main
+  repository. Temporary measure until a Javascript library manager is
+  added.
+- Automatically capture license information from installed Javascript
+  libraries.
+- Automatically capture license information from installed Python
+  packages.
+
+Sources
+~~~~~~~
+- Add ACLs support to sources.
+- Provide error message/feedback when scanning from a remote scanner fails.
+- Redirect to the same source when scanning from a remote scanner finishes.
+
+Testing
+~~~~~~~
+- Add document test mixin that creates documents types and documents
+  (to be used in dynamic_search.test_api).
+
+UI
+~~
+- Shift click select to seletect multiple documents.
+- During the document upload wizard and the option to double click to
+  select document type and submit the form. The purpose is to speed up
+  the step with less mouse travel since this is a common screen.
+- Add metadata to the Menu class to allow UI code to decide where and how
+  to display each menu.
+
+Workflows
+~~~~~~~~~
+- Workflow trigger filters. Example: {{ document.document_type.name = 'invoice' }} or same
+  UI as the smart links app. Will allow restricting the firing of workflow
+  actions by an user defined filter criteria.