Thomas Hochstein
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- Fix clientstats doc (copied from hoststats). - Add some more examples ro README. Signed-off-by: Thomas Hochstein <thh@thh.name>
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NewsStats To-Do List
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This is a list of possible bug fixes, improvements and enhancements for
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NewsStats.
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* General
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- Add a test suite
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There is currently no kind of test suite or regression tests. Something like
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that is badly needed.
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- make NewsStats installable in accordance with LFS and customary procedures,
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i.e. scripts to /usr/local/news/bin or /usr/lib/news/bin, configuration
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to /usr/local/news/etc or /etc/news and so on
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* Additional features
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- Add hierarchy information (GroupInfo)
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NewsStats should be able to recognize invalid (i.e. officially not existing)
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newsgroups and - optionally - drop them from the list of groups. On the
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other hand, it should recognize existing, but empty groups and add them with
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a posting count of 0 to its list.
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NewsStats should be able to do that for any past month.
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It would be nice to make up a kind of hierarchy database from that with
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information like description, charter and moderation status. You should be
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able to get a list of valid groups for any given month (with a bit of slack
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for late creation and deletion), optionally including the previously
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mentioned information; and you should be able to get the history of any
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group.
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- Add tools for database management
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NewsStats should offer tools e.g. to inject postings into the 'raw' database,
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or to split databases.
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* GroupInfo project
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- Create a hierarchy information database, containing information on each
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newsgroup, its creation and removal time, its tagline, charter and
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moderation status, including the moderator contact address.
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- Automatically update hierarchy information, e.g. by parsing control messages
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(with verification!).
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- Track changes in meta information (changes to tagline, charter, moderation
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status etc.)
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- Add tools to query for hierarchy information:
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- canonical list of newsgroups for any given time
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- generate list of changes for a time period
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- find newsgroups (including wildcards) and display their history
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* Individual improvements
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+ NewsStats.pm
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- Improve error handling when reading config
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Some syntax or content related checks would be in order.
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Some other tests - working database connection, valid database and table
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names - would be nice.
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+ gatherstats.pl
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- Use hierarchy information (see GroupInfo above)
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- Add / enhance / test error handling
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+ groupstats.pl, hoststats.pl, clientstats.pl
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- better modularisation (code reuse)
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- Add / enhance / test error handling
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- General tests and optimisations
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