public-inbox 1.1.0-pre1

[public-inbox.git] / TODO

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@@ -11,14 +11,25 @@ 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)
 
+* 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
@@ -34,11 +45,9 @@ 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)
 
-* 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
@@ -47,6 +56,10 @@ all need to be considered for everything we introduce)
 
 * 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)
+
+* EPOLLEXCLUSIVE for listen socket fairness across -httpd/nntpd
+  worker processes.
 
 * improve documentation
 
@@ -66,3 +79,11 @@ all need to be considered for everything we introduce)
 * 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
+
+* Read-only WebDAV interface to the git repo so it can be mounted
+  via davfs2 or fusedav to avoid full clones.