TODO items for public-inbox
-(Not in any particular order)
+(Not in any particular order, and
+performance, ease-of-setup, installation, maintainability, etc
+all need to be considered for everything we introduce)
+
+* general performance improvements, but without relying on
+ XS or compiled code any more than we currently do.
* mailmap support (same as git) for remapping expired email addresses
* 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)
+
+* Support more of RFC 3977 (NNTP)
* Combined "super server" for NNTP/HTTP/POP3 to reduce memory overhead
-* 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.
+* Optional reply-to-nobody for dead lists.
* Configurable linkification for per-inbox shorthands:
"$gmane/123456" could be configured to expand to the
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 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/
-* handle Xapian date range queries:
- http://mid.gmane.org/20151005222157.GE5880@survex.com
+* portability to FreeBSD (and other Free Software *BSDs)
+ ugh... https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=116615
+ (IO::KQueue is broken with Danga::Socket)
-* Consider storing git blob ID in Xapian doc data to avoid ref
- and tree lookups based on Message-Id.
+* EPOLLEXCLUSIVE for listen socket fairness across -httpd/nntpd
+ worker processes.
-* Allow in-place Xapian updates without clobbering the whole
- index (versioning each doc data entry?) for big archives
+* improve documentation
+
+* linkify thread skeletons better
+ https://public-inbox.org/git/6E3699DEA672430CAEA6DEFEDE6918F4@PhilipOakley/
+
+* generate sample CSS for use with Stylish/dillo/etc
+
+* streaming Email::MIME replacement: currently we generate many
+ allocations/strings for headers we never look at and slurp
+ entire message bodies into memory.
+ (this is pie-in-the-sky territory...)
* 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)
+
+* Optionally allow indexing Xapian without positional information to
+ save space (but prevents "quoted phrase" searching).
+
+* Allow NNTP and more of PSGI code to work without Xapian
-* large mbox/Maildir/MH/NNTP spool import (use git fast-import)
+* Read-only WebDAV interface to the git repo so it can be mounted
+ via davfs2 or fusedav to avoid full clones.