| 1 | NewsStats To-Do List |
| 2 | ==================== |
| 3 | |
| 4 | This is a list of planned bug fixes, improvements and enhancements for |
| 5 | NewsStats. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Bug numbers refer to the Mantis issue tracker at <http://bugs.th-h.de/>. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | * General |
| 10 | - Improve Documentation |
| 11 | The documentation is rather sparse and could use some improvement. |
| 12 | - Add a test suite |
| 13 | There is currently no kind of test suite or regression tests. Something like |
| 14 | that is badly needed. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | * Additional features |
| 17 | - Add hierarchy information (GroupInfo - Bugs #19 #20 #21 #22 #23 #24 #25 #26) |
| 18 | NewsStats should be able to recognize invalid (i.e. officially not existing) |
| 19 | newsgroups and - optionally - drop them from the list of groups. On the |
| 20 | other hand, it should recognize existing, but empty groups and add them with |
| 21 | a posting count of 0 to its list. |
| 22 | NewsStats should be able to do that for any past month. |
| 23 | It would be nice to make up a kind of hierarchy database from that with |
| 24 | information like description, charter and moderation status. You should be |
| 25 | able to get a list of valid groups for any given month (with a bit of slack |
| 26 | for late creation and deletion), optionally including the previously |
| 27 | mentioned information; and you should be able to get the history of any |
| 28 | group. |
| 29 | - Add other reports |
| 30 | NewsStats should include some other kinds of reports (stats on used clients, |
| 31 | on postings hosts/servers, ...) |
| 32 | |
| 33 | * Individual improvements |
| 34 | + NewsStats.pm |
| 35 | - Add error handling when reading config (Bug #13) |
| 36 | NewsStats should check if all mandatory options are set. Some syntax or |
| 37 | content related checks would be in order. |
| 38 | Some other tests - working database connection, valid database and table |
| 39 | names - would be nice. |
| 40 | |
| 41 | + install/install.pl |
| 42 | - Add / enhance / test error handling |
| 43 | - General tests and optimisations |
| 44 | |
| 45 | + feedlog.pl |
| 46 | - Add / enhance / test error handling |
| 47 | - General tests and optimisations |
| 48 | |
| 49 | + gatherstats.pl |
| 50 | - Fix database updates when re-running (Bug #18) |
| 51 | Change REPLACE to DELETE with subsequent INSERT INTO (erase wrong data, |
| 52 | i.e. non-existent groups) |
| 53 | - Enhance TLH checks to allow for more than one TLH |
| 54 | - Make gatherstats aware of hierarchy lists (Bug #17) |
| 55 | A current (!) list of existing groups (checkgroups or INN active) should |
| 56 | be honored, with optional modifications. Non-existing groups should be |
| 57 | (logged and) dropped, existing groups with no postings should be set to 0. |
| 58 | Hierarchy elements (*.ALL) must be taken into account. |
| 59 | Perhaps invalid group names should also be checked (but what characters |
| 60 | should be considered "invalid"?) |
| 61 | GroupInfo (see above) could be an alternate solution. |
| 62 | - Add gathering of other stats (clients, hosts, ...) |
| 63 | - better modularisation (code reuse for other reports!) |
| 64 | - Add / enhance / test error handling |
| 65 | - General tests and optimisations |
| 66 | |
| 67 | + groupstats.pl |
| 68 | - output: fix formatting - GetMaxLength does not work for special queries |
| 69 | like -l or -b |
| 70 | - beautify output (formats / captions) |
| 71 | - -a: improve code - it doesn't make that much sense to get first/last |
| 72 | month from database just to query that same database with a time period |
| 73 | that equals no time period ... this part of the WHERE clause should be |
| 74 | dropped instead |
| 75 | - change precedence handling of -m/-p/-a: drop -m if -p or -a are present, |
| 76 | drop -p if -a is present |
| 77 | - save report(s) to a file (Bug #27) |
| 78 | - better modularisation (code reuse for other reports!) |
| 79 | - Add / enhance / test error handling |
| 80 | - General tests and optimisations |