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Good suggestions. We should have a discussion about how much of this I should be taking on myself, seeing as this is not a plugin that I wrote. I could make modifications myself - ideally it would be possible to extend the plugin without modifying it, and I could work with the plugin author to ensure future compatibility and extensibility. Or we could fork. Or we could petition the plugin author to integrate some of these suggests (if he hasn't started already).

I guess that we should talk to the plugin developer first to see where things stand. In terms of overall workflow for you, we'll need to take a look at everything you have on your plate and come up with some priorities.

I just poked around on the Group Documents section of buddypress.org: http://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-group-documents/. In the roadmap file, the author mentions that he'd like to implement search and better filtering/sorting. But they're not too high up the list, and even for the higher stuff on the list we are warned that there is no set timeline since he develops this in his free time. So, we could consider commissioning him to do some of the things on the roadmap (which he says he's open to), or we can open these items as individual feature requests here on Redmine and I will get to them when I can.

Thanks, Boone. Why are we running a crummy fork of buddypress group documents? Any larger issues to address here in a separate ticket?

buddypress-group-documents was abandoned several years ago. We continued to make changes to our version. Later, the plugin was adopted by some other people, but they made subsequent changes that are likely not compatible with some of the changes that we've made locally. The amount of time and effort that would be required to bring these two back into sync is likely not worthwhile.

Thanks, Boone. Can you please explain where BP Docs fits into this? I'm unclear whether that is what you are talking about above.

BuddyPress Docs powers the Docs tab. buddypress-group-documents powers the Files tab. They are unrelated to each other.

ohhhh. Thanks for clarifying..

However, there is this - http://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/3176