Re: [Rssview-developers] Proposal for Release Plan

[Martin K. <ci...@gm...>]

Am Freitag, 9. April 2004 18:14 schrieb Christoph Walcher:

> Bug [ 927822 ] Older articles show up again
> Bug [ 927820 ] Started RssView, selected channel's article view is greyed

Let's fix the stuff, which users simply don't expect to happen.
The bugs above are surely some of them.

It would be also a good idea to make the folder-icons work, like
users expect it. When you select a folder icon, the view should
show all news (recursively) under the folder and its children.

For beta, which should also test if our persistance mechanism
really works well. Some people reported issues about it to me.

> * Work to do for productive release:
> Bug [ 932377 ] RssView application icon does not look good
> Performance enhancements
> Fix bugs found in beta release

These are minor problems.

> While collecting bug reports and feature requests for this email I noticed
> that there are Trackers I really don't know how to deal with. Here's the
> list:
>
> * Bugs:
> [ 727713 ] Proxy support not working.

Forget it, I tried many approaches. I always failed. It's simply
to complicated to implement proxy authentication and if it's
complicated, it means it's not our issue, but Java's one.

I found workarounds, but these are really bad hacks including
BASE64-decoding etc.

Let's forget it for now.

> [ 932253 ] ISO-8859-1 character encoding not recognized

This one should be already fixed by a previous patch by
Francesco.

> * Feature Requests:
> [ 927865 ] RSS Version 1.0 and RSS-PRISM enhancement
> [ 908485 ] Article order in the "Article View" mode
> [ 765037 ] Allow proxy setting for each feed.
> [ 736864 ] Support for Proxy Authentication
> [ 732945 ] Browser Settings

No RFEs for release, please.

> How should we handle these bugs/requests. I suggest to neglect all Proxy
> releated Trackers because this should be configured via Java-Plugin
> preferences (or am I wrong).

I'm not sure if the Java-Plugin preferences thingy offers proxy
authentication. Let's forget it for now (see above).

> Informa kernel really looks good but it's definitly hard work to integrate
> Informa into RssView. I'd suggest to use Informa but before beginning
> integration we should do a productive release of rssview.
>
> Ciao
> Christoph
>
> PS: I'm writing a Prototype using Informa kernel - just as an experiment :)

Wow. Keep us up-to-date about your progress. I believe that our code
will get cleaner if we use a library as a parser.

Martin