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--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -5,23 +5,31 @@ 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.
+  XS or pre-built modules any more than we currently do.
+  (Optional Inline::C and user-compiled re2c acceptable)
 
 * mailmap support (same as git) for remapping expired email addresses
 
+* support remapping of expired URLs similar to mailmap
+  (coordinate with git.git with this?)
+
 * 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.
+  archives in git repositories.
 
 * 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,
+  for offering a publicly 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)
+* support HTTP(S) CONNECT proxying to NNTP for users with
+  firewall problems
+
+* DHT (distributed hash table) for mapping Message-IDs to various
+  archive locations to avoid SPOF.
 
 * optional Cache::FastMmap support so production deployments won't
   need Varnish (Varnish doesn't protect NNTP, either)
@@ -33,15 +41,14 @@ all need to be considered for everything we introduce)
   ensure things continue working as they should (or more better)
   while retaining compatibility with old versions.
 
-* NNTP COMPRESS extension (see innd)
-
 * Support more of RFC 3977 (NNTP)
+  Is there anything left for read-only support?
 
 * 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
-  appropriate link pointing to the gmane.org list archives,
+  appropriate link pointing to the gmane.io list archives,
   likewise "[Bug #123456]" could be configured to expand to
   point to some project's bug tracker at http://example.com/bug/123456
 
@@ -69,10 +76,9 @@ all need to be considered for everything we introduce)
 * linkify thread skeletons better
   https://public-inbox.org/git/6E3699DEA672430CAEA6DEFEDE6918F4@PhilipOakley/
 
-* 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...)
+* Further lower mail parser memory usage.  We still slurp entire
+  message bodies into memory and incur 2-3x overhead on
+  multipart messages.  Inline::C (and maybe gmime) could work.
 
 * use REQUEST_URI properly for CGI / mod_perl2 compatibility
   with Message-IDs which include '%' (done?)
@@ -98,14 +104,43 @@ all need to be considered for everything we introduce)
   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...)
+* code repository integration (cgit: done, TODO: 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/
+* improve performance and avoid head-of-line blocking on slow storage
+
+* share "git cat-file --batch" processes across inboxes to avoid
+  bumping into /proc/sys/fs/pipe-user-pages-* limits
+
+* make "git cat-file --batch" detect unlinked packfiles so we don't
+  have to restart processes (very long-term)
+
+* support searching based on `git-patch-id --stable` to improve
+  bidirectional mapping of commits <=> emails
+
+* linter to check validity of config file
+
+* linter option and WWW endpoint to graph relationships and flows
+  between inboxes, addresses maildirs, coderepos, etc...
+
+* pygments support - via Python script similar to `git cat-file --batch'
+  to avoid startup penalty.  pygments.rb (Ruby) can be inspiration, too.
+
+* highlighting + linkification for "git format-patch --interdiff" output
+
+* highlighting + linkification for "git format-patch --range-diff" output
+  (requires mirroring of git repos)
+
+* parse and allow (semi)automatic-mirroring of "git request-pull" output
+  for coderepos
+
+* configurable diff output for solver-generated blobs
+
+* figure out how search for messages with multiple Date: headers
+  should work (some wacky examples out there...)
 
-* investigate native grokmirror support/integration
+* support UUCP addresses for legacy archives