Proposals for enhancements

• Rules engine for statuses
• i18n approach
• upgrade rails and ruby
• automate metadata with OpenCalais
• factor out email-in-public parts
• escalating privileges system
• Embargo requests feature requirements
• fine-grained user roles and permissions

Based on comparison with MuckRock.com

MuckRock.com is an FOI website in the US, based on Django and DocumentCloud. Some ideas we could borrow include:

• improved document conversion (including annotations)
• request templates
• Implement comments as trackbacks