| 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 | - separate directories (bin, config, ...) |
| 16 | - make NewsStats installable in accordance with LFS and customary procedures, |
| 17 | i.e. scripts to /usr/local/news/bin or /usr/lib/news/bin, configuration |
| 18 | to /usr/local/news/etc or /etc/news and so on |
| 19 | |
| 20 | * Additional features |
| 21 | - Add hierarchy information (GroupInfo - Bugs #19 #20 #21 #22 #23 #24 #25 #26) |
| 22 | NewsStats should be able to recognize invalid (i.e. officially not existing) |
| 23 | newsgroups and - optionally - drop them from the list of groups. On the |
| 24 | other hand, it should recognize existing, but empty groups and add them with |
| 25 | a posting count of 0 to its list. |
| 26 | NewsStats should be able to do that for any past month. |
| 27 | It would be nice to make up a kind of hierarchy database from that with |
| 28 | information like description, charter and moderation status. You should be |
| 29 | able to get a list of valid groups for any given month (with a bit of slack |
| 30 | for late creation and deletion), optionally including the previously |
| 31 | mentioned information; and you should be able to get the history of any |
| 32 | group. |
| 33 | - Add other reports |
| 34 | NewsStats should include some other kinds of reports (stats on used clients, |
| 35 | on postings hosts/servers, ...) |
| 36 | - Add tools for database management |
| 37 | NewsStats should offer tools e.g. to inject postings into the 'raw' database, |
| 38 | or to split databases. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | * Individual improvements |
| 41 | + NewsStats.pm |
| 42 | - Improve error handling when reading config |
| 43 | Some syntax or content related checks would be in order. |
| 44 | Some other tests - working database connection, valid database and table |
| 45 | names - would be nice. |
| 46 | |
| 47 | + install/install.pl |
| 48 | - Read current version from a file dropped and updated by installer |
| 49 | - Add / enhance / test error handling |
| 50 | - General tests and optimisations |
| 51 | |
| 52 | + feedlog.pl |
| 53 | - Add / enhance / test error handling |
| 54 | - General tests and optimisations |
| 55 | |
| 56 | + gatherstats.pl |
| 57 | - Use hierarchy information (see GroupInfo above) |
| 58 | - Add gathering of other stats (clients, hosts, ...) |
| 59 | - better modularisation (code reuse for other reports!) |
| 60 | - Add / enhance / test error handling |
| 61 | - General tests and optimisations |
| 62 | |
| 63 | + groupstats.pl |
| 64 | - better modularisation (code reuse for other reports!) |
| 65 | - Add / enhance / test error handling |
| 66 | - General tests and optimisations |