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
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
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
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.
40 * Individual improvements
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.
48 - Read current version from a file dropped and updated by installer
49 - Add / enhance / test error handling
50 - General tests and optimisations
53 - Add / enhance / test error handling
54 - General tests and optimisations
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
64 - better modularisation (code reuse for other reports!)
65 - Add / enhance / test error handling
66 - General tests and optimisations