Hi BoD,

Yes, the project is still active, although the amount of development work
over the past year has been minimal due to my work commitments. That said,
I do want to continue the project - and appreciate your offer of help.
There are a few pending TODOs that need to be done to finalized 0.5 and
bring it out of 'beta' - including updating to the latest version of Derby,
and the latest version of the HTTPClient. There is also a bug that I need
to fix related to URL-based authentication, and a couple of outstanding bugs
related to categories - have you used these much?

Another thing that I really would like to do (and maybe this is also
something you could help with) is spend some time tuning the Derby database
and how nntp//rss uses it (indexes etc) - the main goal being to improve
performance, and also provide a set of tuning parameters that, for machine
with restricted resources, will reduce the amount of memory it uses.

Finally, one thing that would be very useful - and is definitely missing -
is a collection of automated test cases that exercise the whole system. I
had envisioned an automated test environment using JUnit and Jetty (to act
as a web server to serve up RSS/ATOM feeds over HTTP/HTTPS) - but never got
around to starting that development.

Best Regards,

Jason

----- Original Message -----
From: "BoD" <BoD@...>
To: <nntprss@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 9:54 AM
Subject: [nntprss] Status?


> Hello!
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> I'm a happy user of nntp//rss for several years now.
> I'm currently using v0.5-beta-1 which is great, however it seems that
> there have been no activity for a long time now.
> These are a few features that I think would make it an even greater tool:
> . the possibility to retrieve the "pointed-to" articles, instead of just
> the content of rss item.
> . gateway to email instead (or in addition to) nntp
> . (don't know the feasibility of this one): the possibility to have
> comments posted as replies
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> What is the status on the project, is there any development still
> undergoing?
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> I am myself a Java developer and would be happy to help or to
> participate in any way to the project.
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> Thank you!
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> BoD
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