Re: New features + feature freeze?

[steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur)]

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

    Lars> I've been whittling away on the todo list, and it's now down
    Lars> to only 75 remaining items.  :-) At this rate, they may all
    Lars> be done by New Year.

    Lars> So perhaps there should be a new feature freeze in January
    Lars> so that we can get September working reliably.  Two months
    Lars> beta, and then we should have Gnus 5.2 ready for general
    Lars> usage Marchish?

Sounds good.  At this point I'd rather see all the ``old'' features
work reliably (NOCEM, a port of customize to XEmacs, and Gnus Daemon
come to mind) before adding more stuff.

Speaking of testing and old features, I've noticed a fair number of
questions regarding usage and problems with Gnus and foreign servers.
Is there anyone who can donate NNTP access to allow Gnus testing on
this?  I'd like to test with another NNTP server, but won't have
access to another one until at least mid '96.

    Lars> (I probably shouldn't say this, but...)  If you have ideas
    Lars> for anything neat that you think definitely should be in
    Lars> Gnus, you should probably speak up soon(ish), or it'll have
    Lars> to wait until April.

Since XEmacs has builtin sound support, it would be kind of nice to
have sound effects.  A toilet flushing when deleting articles, the
sound of a flyswatter striking when gnus-summary-mail-nastygram is
sending a message, the sound of letters being dropped into a mail box
when incoming mail arrives, etc.  :-)

    Lars> To take a look at the current (sort of; I've now shaved off
    Lars> 20 items) todo list, point your Web Thing to
    Lars> <URL:http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/sgnus/todo>.

Not on your list:
* Gnus should be able to grok XHDR (I should have code to give you
  for this ready by this weekend)

* If we can't have any native Gnus support for color in the *Group*
  buffer, how about adding hooks to gnus-group-insert-group-line and
  gnus-group-update-group-line so that it can be added without hacking
  Gnus source?

* Tm MIME integration is incomplete at this time.
+ tm-edit doesn't have a buffer menu in mail mode by default
+ News Header hiding looks broken in tm-view
+ The last time I checked, C-c C-x C-z in a *news* post buffer was an
  unwise thing to do

* Customize has to be ported to XEmacs, or some better method of
  customizing colors needs to be added.

(Documentation)
* All hook functions need some documentation.  At the minimum, there
  should be a list of variables that can be safely used in that hook.

* All user callable gnus internal functions need to be at least
  enumerated, and the calling interface needs to be frozen at some
  point too.  It's difficult to customize and extend Gnus when it's a
  rapidly moving target.

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steve@miranova.com baur