3 * Fix: Test mode: Add X-Supersedes only if Supersedes would be set.
5 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sun Oct 31 18:42:52 2010 +0100
10 * Drop use of Fcntl (not needed).
11 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Tue Jun 15 22:30:11 2010 +0200
14 - Drop .yapfaqrc and yapfaq.cfg in favor of .yapfaqrc.sample
15 and yapfaq.cfg.sample; rename test.txt to sample.txt.
16 - Change contents of these files to reflect the new names.
17 - Update some defaults, change sample.txt contents to English.
18 - Add "INSTALLATION" chapter to documentation.
20 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 19:16:40 2010 +0200
22 * Change default Message-ID format.
23 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 19:04:24 2010 +0200
25 * Change: Modify headers for test posts.
26 - Change MID so you can do multiple tests.
27 - Replace Supersedes with X-Supersedes so you do not delete
28 postings while testing.
29 - Add remark ("This is a test message.").
30 - Change documentation accordingly.
32 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 17:22:20 2010 +0200
34 * Change: Drop %LM from subject if Last-Modified is not found.
35 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 16:36:52 2010 +0200
40 * Fix: Accept leading/trailing whitespace for Last-modified pseudo header.
42 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 16:32:58 2010 +0200
47 * Fix broken implementation of "Program" in .yapfaqrc.
49 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> 2010-05-14 21:58:15
54 * Documentation: Add Git repository and bug tracker.
55 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu May 13 19:21:05 2010 +0200
57 * Making use of Getopt::Std's --help and --version.
59 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu May 13 19:33:25 2010 +0200
61 * New: Add "Program" to .yapfaqrc.
63 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu May 13 19:31:49 2010 +0200
65 * Change: Drop PGP support.
66 You may use tinews.pl from
67 ftp://ftp.tin.org/tin/tools/tinews.pl instead.
69 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu May 13 19:24:44 2010 +0200
71 * Fix: Consistency check for MID-Format fixed (regexp).
72 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 23:17:16 2010 +0200
74 * New: MID-Format may now contain %t for a Unix timestamp.
75 %t will be replaced by the number of seconds since the epoch.
76 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 23:18:04 2010 +0200
78 * Documentation changes
79 - Change sample yapfaq.cfg (mark optional settings).
80 Optional settings are mostly commented out.
81 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 09:10:05 2010 +0200
82 - Fix: Add "-V", NNTPSERVER to documentation, add more examples.
83 Added examples for -s and -c.
84 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 10:02:48 2010 +0200
85 - Add comments pointing to .yapfaqrc to source.
86 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 10:10:28 2010 +0200
88 * readconfig(): Add file name to verbose output.
89 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 09:38:23 2010 +0200
91 * Change: Reset default for NNTPServer to "unset".
92 Since yapfaq fill fall back to Perl's build-in defaults,
93 that should be no problem; furthermore user may now
94 override this setting via .yapfaqrc without changing
96 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 09:11:45 2010 +0200
101 * Change: readconfig(): Make mid-format optional.
102 Set defaults for expires and mid-format when they're invalid
103 (defaults were already set in postfaq() if undefined).
104 Change documentation accordingly; make it more clear if
105 parameters are optional or mandatory.
106 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Tue Apr 13 23:59:43 2010 +0200
108 * Fix: Save status information only after successful posting.
109 - New Function: updatestaus
110 Move status information save to updatestatus.
111 - post() now returns exit code.
112 - postfaq() will update status information only
113 when post() was successful.
114 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 23:19:44 2010 +0200
116 * New: Add option '-s': pipe article to script.
117 Use an external program to post - or otherwise handle -
120 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 02:14:59 2010 +0200
122 * New: runtime configuration
123 - Moved configuration to a hash (%Config).
124 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 7 22:09:15 2010 +0200
125 - Add rcfile (.yapfaqrc) for configuration.
126 All configuration data is read from .yapfaqrc
127 with defaults set in yapfaq.pl
128 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 22:02:24 2010 +0200
129 - Add sample .yapfaqrc with defaults.
130 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 7 23:16:20 2010 +0200
131 - Add option '-c': define another .rcfile.
132 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 07:41:43 2010 +0200
133 - Update documentation for .rcfile.
134 Add the according sections to the POD documentation.
136 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 02:17:00 2010 +0200
139 -t CONSOLE: Change delimiter.
140 No leading \n is necessary.
141 Add some more comments.
142 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 01:43:19 2010 +0200
144 * Add option '-V': print version and copyright information.
145 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 07:36:11 2010 +0200
147 * Change: -h: Replace version/usage information with man page.
148 Feed script to perldoc when called with -h.
149 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 06:21:05 2010 +0200
151 * Change: Authenticate only if $NNTPUser is set.
152 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 00:49:24 2010 +0200
154 * Add check for MID-Format and fallback to FQDN.
155 Uses hostfqdn from Net::Domain.
156 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 08:33:01 2010 +0200
158 * Add checks for mandatory content in configuration file.
159 Enhance and optimize existing checks.
160 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 08:30:21 2010 +0200
162 * Code optimisation (verbose output).
163 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 08:00:04 2010 +0200
168 * Fix default for Expires.
169 Bug introduced in v0.6.1.
170 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Fri Feb 26 09:29:01 2010 +0100
175 * Fix: Test mode must not update status information.
176 Also fix runtime warning concerning expires.
177 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Fri Feb 26 08:28:06 2010 +0100
182 * Add documentation in POD format.
183 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 17:00:07 2010 +0100
185 * Add commandline options.
187 - Implement option '-h':
188 Display version and usage information.
189 - Implement option '-v':
190 Print progress information to STDOUT on reading the configuration,
191 skipping a FAQ, preparing it for posting, posting it and writing
192 status information to disk.
193 - Implement option '-f':
194 Limit operation to the given project name. Skip parsing all other
195 information from yapfaq.cfg, skip posting all other FAQs.
197 'dry run', simulation mode: nothing is posted.
199 'post anyway', files are unconditionally posted irrespective of
200 Posting-Frequency settings.
201 - Add option '-t <newsgroups>':
202 'test mode', post to (an)other newsgroup(s) given on the command
203 line or to STDOUT ('console').
204 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 19:22:15 2010 +0100
206 * Add variable expiry.
207 - New Function: calcdelta
208 Move date calculation for new posting date to
210 - Add 'Expires' to yapfaq.cfg
212 Use calcdelta to calculate expiry.
213 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 12:55:04 2010 +0100
215 * Cleanup on yapfaq.cfg
216 Reformat, translate to English language, add descriptions.
217 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 16:16:49 2010 +0100
219 * Change handling of warnings/errors.
220 Don't output line number if .cfg file can't be opened.
221 Inform user when writing to ERROR.dat.
222 Add script name and Warning/Error to warn() and die() output.
223 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 09:23:14 2010 +0100
225 * Fix: Accept case-insensitive Last-modified pseudo header.
226 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sun Feb 21 18:39:05 2010 +0100
229 Don't use PGP by default.
230 Default $NNTPServer to 'localhost'
231 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 15:15:57 2010 +0100
233 * Update header/introduction, bump version/copyright information.
234 Fix typo/language in header/introduction.
235 Add new author / copyright information.
236 Bump version to 0.6-unreleased.
237 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sun Feb 21 18:51:39 2010 +0100
242 - Fixed bug in readconfig().
243 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de> 16 Feb 2003 00:35:37
248 - Fixed PGP-Support (merging some code from tinews.pl). Seems to work well.
249 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de> 11 Jan 2003 3:46:57
252 - General cleanup of the code, changing some weird behaviour and so on.
253 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de> 11 Jan 2003 2:27:23
256 - Changed the name of the project. There was another postfaq before, so I
257 switched to yapfaq (yet another postfaq). I like the idea of a software-line
258 called ya-software for a possible commercial: "Buy ya software!"
259 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de> 11 Jan 2003 1:43:09