Plans for 4.x... 5.x

Plans for 4.x... 5.x

[Chad Walstrom]

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I'm going to try to push for the 4.1 release soon-ish, so we can start
branching off for the 4.2 or 5.0 release.  Perhaps mid to late July.
I'm going to SANS security training from June 25 to 30, so I'll be
unavailable most of that time.

I know I added some tasks to the 4.2 release that we do not have code
for just yet, such as the MIME handling.  I'm inclined to wrap in those
features being submitted by Pankaj and Mel first and worry about new,
uncoded features for later 5.x releases.

Would you LIKE to see an interim 4.x release that incorporates some of
smaller changes before the new database API Mel will be submitting for
the 5.0 release? (i.e. PAM integration and Mel's format hooks)

Feedback, thoughts, ideas?

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Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net>           http://www.wookimus.net/
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Re: Plans for 4.x... 5.x

[Chad Walstrom]

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Chad Walstrom wrote:
> I know I added some tasks to the 4.2 release that we do not have code
> for just yet, such as the MIME handling.  I'm inclined to wrap in
> those features being submitted by Pankaj and Mel first and worry about
> new, uncoded features for later 5.x releases.

Here's an example of what I'm thinking.  (This hasn't been updated to
the CVS yet.)

    GNATS General TODO List
  1.Release 4.1: Code cleanups, bug fixes, documentation updates
    (Mid to Late July 2004?)
    - 1.Prepend $(DESTDIR) to Makefile.in installation targets (Chad)
        (Committed to CVS.)
      2.Add missing manpages -- one manpage for each application (Chad)
        (getclose added.)
      3.Kill install-sid script and update documentation (Chad)
      4.Update Documentation: Set developer's policy.
  2.Release 4.2: New Features
    (September 2004?)
      1.Mail handling enhancements
          1.Mail-based manipulation of GNATS database (Mel)
          2.Trigger-based mail format replies (Mel)
          3.Add "To:" header parsing for PR# (prnumber@host.domain.tld) in queue-pr
  3.Release 5.0: New Features, Major Changes to DB Layer, RDBMS
    (December 2004?)
      1.Database Enhancements
          1.DB Abstraction Layer (Mel)
            (Finished but not rolled into GNATS CVS 5.0 branch)
          2.Oracle RDBMS Backend (Mel)
            (Finished but not rolled in to GNATS CVS 5.0 branch)
          3.PostgreSQL RDBMS Backend (Mel)
      2.Account enhancements
          1.PAM Authentication (Pankaj)
            (Patch submitted 2004-06-20.)
  4.Release 5.x: New Features
      1.Mail handling enhancements
          1.MIME Handling
              1.Detach files appropriately for GNATS DB format
              2.Convert HTML to TXT?
      2.Database Enhancements
          1.mbox Backend
              1.Maintain mbox archive of all emails
              2.Fake Audit trail entries as emails and append to mbox
                archive
              3.Continue to use existing PR datafile for logging events,
                keywords, and metadata

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