NewsStats To-Do List ==================== This is a list of planned bug fixes, improvements and enhancements for NewsStats. Bug numbers refer to the Mantis issue tracker at . * General - Improve Documentation The documentation is rather sparse and could use some improvement. - Add a test suite There is currently no kind of test suite or regression tests. Something like that is badly needed. * Additional features - Add hierarchy information (GroupInfo - Bugs #19 #20 #21 #22 #23 #24 #25 #26) NewsStats should be able to recognize invalid (i.e. officially not existing) newsgroups and - optionally - drop them from the list of groups. On the other hand, it should recognize existing, but empty groups and add them with a posting count of 0 to its list. NewsStats should be able to do that for any past month. It would be nice to make up a kind of hierarchy database from that with information like description, charter and moderation status. You should be able to get a list of valid groups for any given month (with a bit of slack for late creation and deletion), optionally including the previously mentioned information; and you should be able to get the history of any group. - Add other reports NewsStats should include some other kinds of reports (stats on used clients, on postings hosts/servers, ...) - Add tools for database management NewsStats should offer tools e.g. to inject postings into the 'raw' database, or to split databases. * Individual improvements + NewsStats.pm - Add error handling when reading config (Bug #13) NewsStats should check if all mandatory options are set. Some syntax or content related checks would be in order. Some other tests - working database connection, valid database and table names - would be nice. + install/install.pl - Add / enhance / test error handling - General tests and optimisations + feedlog.pl - Gracefully handle interruptions to database connection, at least log lost postings (Bug #30). - Buffer output that cannot be written to database (Bug #31). - Add / enhance / test error handling - General tests and optimisations + gatherstats.pl - Use hierarchy information (see GroupInfo above) - Add gathering of other stats (clients, hosts, ...) - better modularisation (code reuse for other reports!) - Add / enhance / test error handling - General tests and optimisations + groupstats.pl - better modularisation (code reuse for other reports!) - Add / enhance / test error handling - General tests and optimisations