"Keith Richie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 12:37:40 -0400:
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > Thank's for being helpfull Richard. Thank /you/. =8^) > Can you point me to future plans, as the mailing list archive searches > in user and devel. didn't turnup anything for those 2 features. You've probably looked and seen that it's not updated for the reality of the >0.9x series yet, but there's a /very/ dated roadmap on the rebelbase site. I saw Charles was cleaning out the old Bugzilla bugs the other day, maybe he'll get around to updating the roadmap soon too, and I'll have something official to go on, instead of piecing a bit of a comment here and a bit of a comment there together, and reading between the lines. =8^\ As I said, Charles /has/ stated that there won't be many new features until after 1.0. I have /inferred/ from various hints that he intends to make 1.0 the next stable release, and to have it out by the end of the year (I'm guessing he'd like it sooner, say August/Sept, but am saying EOY as I think that's a safer bet, given I'm not sure). Thus, unlike back with 0.14.x, when "post 1.0" was really equivalent to "bluesky", that is, "it'd be nice, but there's no telling if or when", post 1.0 actually isn't that far away now that 1.0 should be the next stable release. Beyond that, your "multiple groups view" idea has been discussed before, back with the old PAN when the fully automated multi-server processing PAN has now was still theory. If you are familiar with BNR2 and 3 (which are available for Linux, and have the code available under a more or less free license, but require a slaveryware Borland Delphi/Kylex compiler, so I won't use them as I have this thing about freedom, see), you'll see the concept there. The idea is sort of a "supernewsgroup", which combines the posts from multiple groups into one view. Of course, this wasn't possible back then and was waiting on the multiple server thing, which was waiting on the backend database rewrite (which of course pan >0.90 has, tho it's a bit different than it was envisioned back then). So, the prerequisites are here now, and this feature will likely be added eventually, but as it's a major new feature, it's almost certainly post 1.0. If I were to guess, I'd say perhaps 1.2 (or whatever 1.0 plus two stable releases ends up being called), as 1.1 will likely be just getting back the rest of the 0.14 features still lacking (see next for more on that). The save-an-nzb-file-to-subdir idea is really a special case or extension of the 0.14.x idea of having each newsgroup save to a subdir of the default save dir. It has actually been requested recently (that is, in discussions post 0.9x) both as the newsgroup subdir and specifically as a per nzb subdir request. Given that group-to-subdir was a feature in 0.14.x, the lack of it now is a regression, so that part is likely to be dealt with fairly quickly. However, as there's very little state retained per group right now (only the absolutely necessary article tracking and which groups are on which servers pretty much, AFAIK), all that per-group state is likely to be added back at once, and Charles has hinted that it will be post 1.0. (Specifically, he told me that per group memory of posting profile would be post 1.0, but again, that requires a mechanism to store per group settings that doesn't yet exist, so reading between the lines, the whole per-group-settings thing is post 1.0 -- but I could be wrong.) My guess would be that per-group setting and all the stuff that logically follows will be pretty high priority post 1.0, very likely for 1.1, which I would assume to be the next-plus-one stable release, with a very loosely guessed timetable of about this time next year (earlier if 1.0 goes out significantly b4 year-end). After that, adding nzb subdir support should be almost trivial, since behind the scenes that's what PAN would already be doing for the group subdirs. However, I'm not sure if it'd be added at the same time or not. I'd still say 1.1's a pretty good guess, however. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
