misc doc updates

Strongly emphasize decentralization, as that was actually the
main impetus for my interest in git.

diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 46f8a3edd93f1f8abdfa002fc082117c4b804acf..1cda588e9c7632e5268ec2f505cf23c3ff1a8387 100644 (file)
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -6,10 +6,13 @@ It is archived at <http://public-inbox.org/meta/>.
 
 Please consider our goals in mind:
 
-       Accessibility, Compatibility, Performance
+       Decentralization, Accessibility, Compatibility, Performance
 
 These goals apply to everyone: users viewing over the web or NNTP,
 sysadmins running public-inbox, and other hackers working public-inbox.
 
+We will reject any feature which advocates or contributes to a particular
+instance of a public-inbox becoming a single point of failure.
+
 See design_www.txt and design_notes.txt in the Documentation/ directory
 for design decisions made during development.

diff --git a/README b/README
index 4c405acde3dc23cd31b96af738cb37439f4de129..09b66a36bd2b9b74f59117cb307f4b943e4419c6 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ Requirements (participant)
 
 * any MUA which may send text-only emails ("git send-email" works!)
   Users are strongly encouraged to use the "reply-all" feature of
-  their mailers to reduce the impact of a public-inbox as a SPOF.
+  their mailers to reduce the impact of a public-inbox as a
+  single point of failure.
 
 * participants do not need to install public-inbox, only server admins
 

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 2d70995201fb10c8d5b1cbf404e9db6707953676..d2f57d83679256fce9f13ea2035a2d3532330cff 100644 (file)
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,5 +1,17 @@
+TODO items for public-inbox
+
+(Not in any particular order)
+
 * implement RFC 4685 (Atom message threading)
 * configurable constants (quote folding, index limits)
 * 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
+* use REQUEST_URI properly for CGI / mod_perl2 compatibility
+  with Message-IDs which include '%'
+* more test cases (use git fast-import to speed up creation)
+* large mbox/Maildir/MH/NNTP spool import (use git fast-import)
+* remove dependency on ssoma installation (inline the code)
 * improve + document mlmmj integration, currently only at:
   http://bogomips.org/unicorn-public/20140508084301.GA2033%40dcvr.yhbt.net/