X-Git-Url: http://www.git.stargrave.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=d947b0ff822198abccc4f1c558eedd42f64bbae5;hb=e229e045a93ef35c335af00cd0e130a6ec6146d4;hp=dfee6e5818e20949a74ab2af251d0704fa26b0e0;hpb=066509e117ab359d338e50cdd3ccec5601581d7c;p=public-inbox.git diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index dfee6e58..d947b0ff 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -11,17 +11,23 @@ all need to be considered for everything we introduce) * POP3 server, since some webmail providers support external POP3: https://public-inbox.org/meta/20160411034104.GA7817@dcvr.yhbt.net/ + Perhaps make this depend solely the NNTP server and work as a proxy. + Meaning users can run this without needing a full copy of the + archives in a git repository. + +* HTTP and NNTP proxy support. Allow us to be a frontend for + firewalled off (or Tor-exclusive) instances. The use case is + for offering a publically accessible IP with a cheap VPS, + yet storing large amounts of data on computers without a + public IP behind a home Internet connection. * TLS support for various daemons (including STARTTLS for NNTP and POP3) -* Unix socket support for HTTP and POP3 server for use behind reverse - proxies like nginx +* NNTP COMPRESS extension (see innd) -* Combined "super server" for NNTP/HTTP/POP3 to reduce memory overhead +* Support more of RFC 3977 (NNTP) -* Optional reply-to-list support for mirroring lists that want it :< - Reply-to-list encourages the existing list as a single-point-of-failure, - but having an extra mirror using public-inbox code is nice regardless. +* Combined "super server" for NNTP/HTTP/POP3 to reduce memory overhead * Configurable linkification for per-inbox shorthands: "$gmane/123456" could be configured to expand to the @@ -37,35 +43,20 @@ all need to be considered for everything we introduce) the links should point to an anchor tag within the same page, instead; giving the user options. -* implement RFC 4685 (Atom message threading) - * configurable constants (index limits, search results) -* use tags as date-based skiplists for navigating history - (maybe not needed with Xapian support nowadays?) - -* handle Xapian date range queries: - http://mid.gmane.org/20151005222157.GE5880@survex.com - -* handle messages with multiple Message-IDs +* handle messages with multiple Message-IDs (done for v2, doable for v1) * handle broken double-bracketed References properly (maybe) and totally broken Message-IDs cf. https://public-inbox.org/git/20160814012706.GA18784@starla/ -* portability to FreeBSD (and other Free Software *BSDs) - ugh... https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=116615 - -* documentation (pod/text) +* improve documentation * linkify thread skeletons better https://public-inbox.org/git/6E3699DEA672430CAEA6DEFEDE6918F4@PhilipOakley/ -* generate sample CSS for use with Stylish/dillo/etc - -* builtin-help for search engine syntax - * streaming Email::MIME replacement: currently we generate many allocations/strings for headers we never look at and slurp entire message bodies into memory. @@ -74,6 +65,34 @@ all need to be considered for everything we introduce) * use REQUEST_URI properly for CGI / mod_perl2 compatibility with Message-IDs which include '%' (done?) -* more test cases (use git fast-import to speed up creation) +* more and better test cases (use git fast-import to speed up creation) + +* large mbox/Maildir/MH/NNTP spool import (see PublicInbox::Import) + +* Allow NNTP and more of PSGI code to work without Xapian + +* Read-only WebDAV interface to the git repo so it can be mounted + via davfs2 or fusedav to avoid full clones. + davfs2 needs Range: request support for this to be feasible: + https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?33259 + https://savannah.nongnu.org/support/?107649 + +* Contribute something like IMAP IDLE for "git fetch". + Inboxes (and any git repos) can be kept up-to-date without + relying on polling. + +* Expose targeted reindexing of individual messages. + Sometimes an indexing bug only affects a handful of messages, + so it's not worth the trouble of doing a full reindex. + +* code repository integration (with cgit, gitweb, etc...) + +* migration path to v2 without breaking v1 "git fetch" cronjobs + +* imperfect scraper importers for obfuscated list archives + (e.g. obfuscated Mailman stuff, Google Groups, etc...) + +* support hooks, since low-level git-fast-import does not run them + https://public-inbox.org/meta/20190405174329.GA21472@chatter.qube.local/ -* large mbox/Maildir/MH/NNTP spool import (use git fast-import) +* investigate native grokmirror support/integration