[Feedreader-development] Re: To offer the help with the project

[Toomas T. <to...@i-...>]

Hello!

Ehh... Of course we need help :) At the moment there are two active 
developers but till yesterday there was three month gap beetween last 
development changes. And i guess that other developer from Germany is 
not working on it very actively at the moment. So all Your possible help 
is very nice. Of course I have a little roadmap in my head. Here it goes:

First we need to fix some bugs. They are not big. At the moment there 
are 50 bugs listed in sourceforge.

Then there is localization issues. We need normal interface to add and 
change localization files. At the moment I have php/http/mysql frontend 
for this but we should make it better so person can automatically create 
language file on server.

If there are a lot of  feeds and saved headlines, then saving and 
opening xml data files is quite slow. So maybe we should switch from xml 
data saving to some kind of binary format. Of course, it could be 
selectable, so some people could save in xml to. Another possibility is 
to implement opml import and export.

The biggest thing I'd like to see in future is modulability (?) of 
Feedreader. I do not want to make Feedreader complex but instead like to 
add functionality to Feedreader by using modules. Some possible modules 
: pop3 mail checker, imap mail checker, news client, .... Point is that 
people could write those modules/plugins themselves.


If you are interested in project, there is mailing list in sourceforge. 
You could subscribe yourself there and then we could continue outr 
discussion there so everybody can follow it.

Also can you tell me about your delphi skills? :)

Greetings
Toomas

Ratko Kovacina wrote:

>Hi,
>
>The Feedreader is very good package, I have been using it for 
>some time and I like it very much. You did a very good job 
>indeed.
>
>Since I have been working with RSS and related stuff I am 
>keen to take on software project/applications like Feedreader 
>and help to make it even better. 
>
>Could you tell me what is you plan about this, what is 
>the 'roadmap' if you have one at this time?  Where do you 
>need assistance the most?
>
>I am not sure if you need any help with the development of 
>the application. But if you need I would be happy to 
>contribute some work. 
>
>Regards,
>Ratko.
>
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