4 This is a list of planned bug fixes, improvements and enhancements for
7 Bug numbers refer to the Mantis issue tracker at <http://bugs.th-h.de/>.
10 - Improve Documentation
11 The documentation is rather sparse and could use some improvement.
13 There is currently no kind of test suite or regression tests. Something like
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
30 NewsStats should include some other kinds of reports (stats on used clients,
31 on postings hosts/servers, ...)
32 - Add tools for database management
33 NewsStats should offer tools e.g. to inject postings into the 'raw' database,
34 or to split databases.
36 * Individual improvements
38 - Add error handling when reading config (Bug #13)
39 NewsStats should check if all mandatory options are set. Some syntax or
40 content related checks would be in order.
41 Some other tests - working database connection, valid database and table
42 names - would be nice.
45 - Complete rewrite (like groupstats.pl, include changes in NewsStats.pm)
46 - Add / enhance / test error handling
47 - General tests and optimisations
50 - Complete rewrite (like groupstats.pl, include changes in NewsStats.pm)
51 - Gracefully handle interruptions to database connection, at least log
52 lost postings (Bug #30).
53 - Buffer output that cannot be written to database (Bug #31).
54 - Add / enhance / test error handling
55 - General tests and optimisations
58 - Use hierarchy information (see GroupInfo above)
59 - Add gathering of other stats (clients, hosts, ...)
60 - better modularisation (code reuse for other reports!)
61 - Add / enhance / test error handling
62 - General tests and optimisations
65 - better modularisation (code reuse for other reports!)
66 - Add / enhance / test error handling
67 - General tests and optimisations