TODO 0.6

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This page contains a low-level overview of tasks which need to be done before NNTPGrab 0.6 can be released

Last updated: February 14 2010

[edit] For NNTPGrab 0.5.91 (0.6 Beta 2)

Infrastructure:

• Package libproxy for MinGW to get proxy support on Win32 environments done!
  • Create .spec file done!
  • Get rid of the pthread dependency (in proxy.c) done!
  • Get rid of the external plugins (bundle everything in the DLL) [1] done!
• Package libproxy for Darwinx to get proxy support on Mac OS X environments done!

NNTPGrab Core:

• The bandwidth limiting currently has a rounding error somewhere (100KB/sec will be limited to 96KB/sec)
• Add support to specify which optional dependencies (e.g. libnotify, networkmanager) will be used when running ./configure
• NNTPGrab doesn't start, port is in use done!

Unpack plugin:

• Automatically remove files after unpack done!
• Only try to unpack files when a collection has been completely verified using PAR2 (this goes wrong when a collection contains multiple PAR2 sets) done!

JSON-RPC plugin:

• Implement JSON-RPC over TCP done!
• Implement the JSON-RPC method schedular_get_all_tasks done!
• Implement the JSON-RPC method nntpgrab_schedular_add_file_to_queue done!
• Implement the JSON-RPC method nntpgrab_utils_strip_subject
• Implement the JSON-RPC method nntpgrab_utils_calculate_file_size
• Implement the JSON-RPC method nntpgrab_utils_calculate_estimated_time_remaining
• Implement the JSON-RPC method nntpgrab_utils_get_readable_time_remaining
• Implement the JSON-RPC method nntpgrab_utils_get_readable_finished_time
• Implement the JSON-RPC method nntpgrab_utils_get_folder_listing done!
• Listen on both an IPv4 as an IPv6 socket done!
• Add user authentication done!
• Add the build date and build number to the results of the nntpgrab_get_version_info function
• Add the signals jsonrpc_client_connected and jsonrpc_client_disconnected done!

Automation plugin:

• Move the auto import code (automation library) to a seperate plugin done!

Glue layer:

• Use JSON-RPC over TCP instead of the custom TCP protocol done!
• Implement the JSON-RPC method nntpgrab_config_get_avail_servers done!
• Implement the JSON-RPC method nntpgrab_config_get_server_info done!
• Implement the JSON-RPC method nntpgrab_config_add_server done!
• Implement the JSON-RPC method nntpgrab_config_del_server done!
• Implement the JSON-RPC method nntpgrab_config_edit_server done!
• Implement the JSON-RPC method nntpgrab_config_get_opts done!
• Implement the JSON-RPC method nntpgrab_config_set_opts done!
• Implement the JSON-RPC method nntpgrab_config_get_folder_listing done!
• Implement the JSON-RPC method nntpgrab_schedular_start done!
• Implement the JSON-RPC method nntpgrab_schedular_stop done!
• Implement the JSON-RPC method nntpgrab_schedular_get_state done!
• Implement the JSON-RPC method nntpgrab_schedular_add_file_to_queue done!
• Implement the JSON-RPC method nntpgrab_schedular_del_file_from_queue done!
• Implement the JSON-RPC method nntpgrab_schedular_restart_file done!
• Implement the JSON-RPC method nntpgrab_schedular_save_queue done!
• Implement the JSON-RPC method nntpgrab_schedular_get_all_tasks done!
• Implement the JSON-RPC method nntpgrab_schedular_move_file done!
• Implement the JSON-RPC method nntpgrab_schedular_move_collection done!

NNTPGrab Server:

• Use the JSON-RPC plugin for all communication (using JSON-RPC over TCP) done!
• Always enable the embedded webserver, even if it's disabled by default done!

NNTPGrab Server (console):

• Start in the foreground by default done!
• Add an --help command line option done!
• Properly handle initialisation errors when starting in the background

GTK frontend:

• Add support for PolicyKit 1.0 (required for Automatic Shutdown)

Qt frontend:

• Create a Qt frontend for the NNTPGrab Server done!

[edit] For NNTPGrab 0.6.0

Fonera tasks: (help wanted!)

• Publish a new snapshot (requires the glue layer tasks mentioned earlier to be fully implemented first)
• Create snapshots for Fonera 2.0n environments
• Save the configuration files and the download queue to automount'ed (removable) media
• Use UCI for all configuration
• Add checks to only allow downloading to automount'ed (removable) media
• Create a .FMG package for easy installation on Fonera environments
• Automatically generate .FMG snapshot packages after each commit

[edit] For NNTPGrab 0.7.0

NNTPGrab Core:

• Add dependency checks when manually loading plugins
• Add dependency checks when unloading plugins
• Automatically un-register plugin functions and events on unload
• Make the configuration more dynamic (plugin specific settings)
• Allow frontends to call plugin methods

JSON-RPC plugin:

• Add user authentication for JSON-RPC over TCP
• Make user authentication configurable from frontends

GTK frontend:

• Add support to change the password to connect to an NNTPGrab Server
• Ask for an password when connecting to an NNTPGrab Server