TODO 0.5
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This page contains a low-level overview of tasks which need to be done before NNTPGrab 0.5 can be released
Last updated: May 3 2009
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For NNTPGrab 0.4.91 (0.5 Beta 2)
Generic tasks:
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Drop unnecessary libraries like fontconfig and freetype for the Mac OS X packagesdone! -
Create static Fedora-MinGW subpackages for the NNTPGrab dependencies on Win32done! - Find out why static-compiled GtkBuilder based applications don't work work started
- Create a fully static-compiled version of NNTPGrab for Win32 work started
- Investigate the possibility to do donations using PayPal
NNTPGrab Core and plugins:
- Restarting of items in the download queue is a bit borked due to some optimalisations which were implemented for NNTPGrab 0.5
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Changing the position of collections in the download queue causes some inconsistency in the databasedone! -
Downloaded files something have a wrong statusdone! -
When deleting an active server, all files go to 'not available' statusdone! -
Implement forking of the console NNTPGrab Server (run in the background)done! -
Some characters (for example ( and )) are being replaced with _ because par2cmdline cannot handle themdone! -
The automatic unpack needs to be configurabledone! -
Automatic shutdown isn't triggered when PAR2 repair is disabled and the unpack failsdone!
Gtk GUI:
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Improve the PAR2 tab so that all PAR2 sets will be shown and unpack message will also be mentioned theredone! -
The 'hicolor' theme is missing in the win32 installerdone!
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For NNTPGrab 0.6.0
NNTPGrab Core and plugins:
- Implement a TODO-download-queue for every usenet server in order to lower the CPU usage
- The results of the par2 process need to be integrated in the NNTPGrab Core and the schedular plugin
- Look for a way to perform configuration changes in the background so that frontends don't lock up while a configuration change is in progress
QT GUI:
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Attend a reading at FOSDEM about QT developmentdone! - Create a (minimal) GUI written in QT to test whether QT works better on Win32 and/or Mac OS X environments than Gtk in progress
- Test the support for notification balloons in QT for Win32 and Mac OS X environments
