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annotate TODO @ 390:2ad4c1c97734 noffle
[svn] * src/client.c: Return correct status from Client_postArt() and add
function comment detailing what return code should be, because it's
not obvious that the return code should report success when the
posting failed for reasons other than connection problems. This should fix
problem with failing posting stopping fetches. Thanks to Dan Jacobson
for spotting this.
* src/client.c: Fix problemette with filter discards not updating remote
group article count and so the overview being refetched until
and article appears that doesn't fall foul of the filter and thus does
update the remove group 'next article' marker. Thanks to Dan Jacobson
for spotting this.
* src/content.c: Don't be fooled into thinking a filename starting ".."
is just "..".
* src/outgoing.c: Don't assume "." and ".." are the first files returned
from readdir(). Thanks to Andreas Happe for spotting this.
* src/noffle.c: Update online help to include 'm' group posting status.
* src/server.c: Move incorrect updating of server.grp in doGrp() which was
causing doGrp() to not retrieve remote article details when in online
mode. Thanks to Miernik and Andreas Happe for reporting the problem.
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296 | 19 * Remove groups if they disappear from the upstream servers. |
20 (Subject to setting? Only if all articles in the group are expired?) | |
21 Debian bug 168401 | |
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23 * Add command line options to add/remove message IDs to/from the article | |
24 fetchlist. Debian bug 151655. | |
25 | |
26 * Let all commands that could accept >1 argument. Debian bug 151655. | |
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206 | 28 * Provide list of suggested configurations for popular upstream servers. |
29 | |
30 * Review latest NNTP draft (http://www.ieft.org/ids.by.wg/nntpext.html). | |
31 Noted so far: Implement DATE and OVER. OVER is a synonym for XOVER, | |
32 which should continue to work for compatability reasons. | |
33 | |
207 | 34 * Review latest Usenet message format (draft). |
35 http://www.ietf.org/ids.by.wg/usefor.html. | |
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121 | 37 * Improve performance of group database. Using GDBM is a bad choice, |
38 better use a btree from the Berkeley db library in libc. | |
39 This will be a good time for a redesign of the group.h interface | |
40 with respect to process concurrency if the simple global locking strategy | |
41 will be changed in the future. | |
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292 | 50 * Automatically retry NNTP transactions that fail due to lost connection/ |
51 timeout up to a configurable threshold number of times before passing | |
52 the failure on. This to cope with servers with short timeouts on | |
53 networks with highly variable and significant latencies. | |
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