From a7f03d9f7c544cdc7662b936a390af91d199d8c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carl Worth Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:06:37 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] TODO: Remove many items that have been completed recently. There's been a lot of good work done, and we've been doing a generally poor job of noticing when some of the tasks we've completed were already on our TODO list. So here's a careful scan, removing all items I could find that have already been done. --- TODO | 91 +++--------------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 87 deletions(-) diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 24c8e83f..f8fb76da 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ Fix the things that are causing the most pain to new users 2. Allow an easy way to get tags from directory names (if the user has them) -3. Fix Xapian defect #250 so tagging is fast. - Emacs interface (notmuch.el) ---------------------------- Enhance '+' and '-' in the search view to operate on an entire region @@ -16,14 +14,9 @@ the entire buffer. Add a global keybinding table for notmuch, and then view-specific tables that add to it. - -Add a command to archive all threads in a search view. Add a '|' binding from the search view. -When a thread has been entirely read, start out by closing all -messages except those that matched the search terms. - Add support for choosing from one of the user's configured email addresses for the From line. @@ -61,7 +54,9 @@ filtering that the user wants to do). Fix "notmuch show" so that the UI doesn't fail to show a thread that is visible in a search buffer, but happens to no longer match the current search. (Perhaps add a --matching= -option (or similar) to "notmuch show".) +option (or similar) to "notmuch show".) For now, this is being worked +around in the emacs interface by noticing that "notmuch show" returns +nothing and re-rerunning the command without the extra arguments. Teach "notmuch search" to return many different kinds of results. Some ideas: @@ -78,11 +73,7 @@ for selecting what gets printed). Add a "--count-only" (or so?) option to "notmuch search" for returning the count of search results. -Add documented syntax for searching all threads/messages. - -Give "notmuch restore" some progress indicator. Until we get the -Xapian bugs fixed that are making this operation slow, we really need -to let the user know that things are still moving. +Give "notmuch restore" some progress indicator. Fix "notmuch restore" to operate in a single pass much like "notmuch dump" does, rather than doing N searches into the database, each @@ -91,33 +82,11 @@ matching 1/N messages. Add a "-f " option to select an alternate configuration file. -Fix notmuch.c to call add_timestamp/get_timestamp with path names -relative to the database path. (Otherwise, moving the database to a -new directory will result in notmuch creating new timestamp documents -and leaving stale ones behind.) - -Fix notmuch.c to use a DIR prefix for directory timestamps, (the idea -being that it can then add other non-directory timestamps such as for -noting how far back in the past mail has been indexed, and whether it -needs to re-tag messages based on a theoretical "auto-tags" -configuration file). - -Make "notmuch new" notice when a mail directory has gone more than a -month without receiving new mail and use that to trigger the printing -of the note that the user might want to mark the directory read-only. - -Also make "notmuch new" optionally able to just mark those month-old -directories read-only on its own. (Could conflict with low-volume -lists such as announce lists if they are setup to deliver to their own -maildirs.) - Allow configuration for filename patterns that should be ignored when indexing. notmuch library --------------- -Index content from citations, please. - Provide a sane syntax for date ranges. First, we don't want to require both endpoints to be specified. For example it would be nice to be able to say things like "since:2009-01-1" or "until:2009-01-1" and @@ -131,9 +100,6 @@ Make failure to read a file (such as a permissions problem) a warning rather than an error (should be similar to the existing warning for a non-mail file). -Add support for files that are moved or deleted (which obviously need -to be handled differently). - Actually compile and install a libnotmuch shared library. Fix to use the *last* Message-ID header if multiple such headers are @@ -179,56 +145,7 @@ General ------- Audit everything for dealing with out-of-memory (and drop xutil.c). -Write a test suite. - Achieve 100% test coverage with the test suite. Investigate why the notmuch database is slightly larger than the sup database for the same corpus of email. - -Xapian ------- -Fix defect #250 - - replace_document should make minimal changes to database file - http://trac.xapian.org/ticket/250 - - It looks like it's going to be easy to fix. Here's the file to - change: - - xapian-core/backends/flint/flint_database.cc - - And look for: - - // FIXME - in the case where there is overlap between the new - // termlist and the old termlist, it would be better to compare the - // two lists, and make the minimum set of modifications required. - // This would lead to smaller changesets for replication, and - // probably be faster overall - - So I think this might be as easy as just walking over two - sorted lists looking for differences. - - Note that this is in the currently default "flint" backend, - but the Xapian folks are probably more interested in fixing - the in-development "chert" backend. So the patch to get - upstreamed there will probably also fix: - - xapian-core/backends/chert/chert_database.cc - - (I'm hoping the fix will be the same---an identical comment - exists there.) - - Also, if you want to experiment with the chert backend, - compile current Xapian source and run notmuch with - XAPIAN_PREFER_CHERT=1. I haven't tried that yet, but there are - claims that a chert database can be 40% smaller than an - equivalent flint database. - -Report this bug: - - "tag:foo and tag:bar and -tag:deleted" goes insane - - This seems to be triggered by a Boolean operator next to a - token starting with a non-word character---suddenly all the - Boolean operators get treated as literal tokens)