On the road to 4.2

On the road to 4.2

[Chad Walstrom]

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Now that we've had a few weeks to get used to 4.1, it's time to start
looking at the road to 4.2.  Implicit in each release are on-going
bug-fixes, compilation cleanup, and security fixes; I think it's time to
start taking a serious look at the GNATS bug database.

I'm going to continue to lobby to get it running on the GNU server
instead of my slow sparc.

Today is the 28th of March, 2005.  Let's target the release of 4.2 for
October 1, 2005 or sooner.  Some of the items listed here already have
code written for them.  The PAM patch, for example, and Mel's mail-based
commands and database abstraction work.  As you can see, we have
tentative targets for incorporating them into GNATS.  These can be moved
around as we start making commits to the repository.  For example, I'm
willing to move the PAM patches to 4.2, although it has been noted that
GNUTLS should probably be in place first.

We could probably take another look at gnulib to provide things like
getdate.y or portability functions we don't want to explicitly maintain.
Obviously, automake/autoconf cleanups top the list of relatively simple,
yet needed things.

Currently, this is what the TODO list looks like::

    GNATS General TODO List
  2.Release 4.2: New Features
      1.Cleanup build infrastructure w/automake and autoconf
      2.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
      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.Security Enhancements
          1.TLS integration via gnutls
      2.Mail handling enhancements
          1.MIME Handling
              1.Detach files appropriately for GNATS DB format
              2.Convert HTML to TXT?
      3.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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Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net>           http://www.wookimus.net/
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Re: On the road to 4.2

[Chad Walstrom]

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For those interested in the GNU Arch revision control software, I've
been playing around with cscvs [1]_, a Python cvs-to-tla gateway
application.  I imported the entire cvs trunk into GNU Arch, but ran
into a problem with signed v.s. unsigned archives.  With 918 changesets,
I didn't want to have to type in my gpg passphrase each time.  So, I've
also been playing around with gpg-agent, found in the gnupg development
branch.  I'm happy to say it works well with even the older 1.2.x series
of gpg clients with the "use-agent" command-line switch or config file
option.  Note, you also need a pinentry agent installed to collect the
PIN or passphrase.  I haven't gotten the pinentry-curses app to work
yet, but pinentry-gtk-2 works beautifully, even over an ssh-tunnel via
cable-modem.

So, I'll be signing my copy of the cvs trunk archive and mirroring it to
my personal website later this week (tonight maybe).  I'll update you on
the location when it gets mirrored.

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Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net>           http://www.wookimus.net/
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