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NewsStats To-Do List
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This is a list of planned bug fixes, improvements and enhancements for
NewsStats.
Bug numbers refer to the Mantis issue tracker at <http://bugs.th-h.de/>.
* 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