http://www.copress.org/wiki/Edit_Flow_Project
The overall goal of this plugin is to improve WordPress' admin for a multi-user newsroom's editorial workflow.
Through discussions with existing newsrooms that use WordPress as their CMS of choice, we have identified the following weak points within the WordPress Administration interface in the context of a multi-user environment:
* the editorial workflow is limited and does not scale well where numerous individuals interact with a single Post or where more complex editing workflows are required;
* the editorial workflow is not conducive to planning of future content (while the Draft feature does facilitate this to some extent, the existing feature set does not scale in scenarios where different users are responsible for different components of a post, or different steps within the workflow.
* the ability for users to communicate within the Administration interface is limited, both the planning of future Posts/assignments and during the editing process.While existing plugins do solve various facets of the workflow issues we raise, our aim is to provide a comprehensive solution that eases editorial workflows within WordPress, to (a) encourage its use as the primary content management system for newsroom; and (b) facilitate web-first publishing for traditionally print publications.
It should be noted that while we are targeting newsrooms in particular, our aim is to design a flexible solution that can be used by multi-user blogs with varying demands from their editorial workflows (e.g. VentureBeat).
