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BFAV has been replaced by the Mantis Server

• Profiling scripts for selected functionality
  • initial load, for one
    • Hans-Martin Mosner has reported some profiling results on IRC Client, and says he has gotten initial-load performance to improve by 50%, but has yet to publish code
  • time to process a single line added to the server listing
    • currently BFAV2 loads synchronously because it only does a partial get on the server listing file, which should be really fast, however even single-post updates take several seconds
• Integrate BFAV2 with SM
  • Make BFAV2 SM-package-aware
    • The DRNP should lookup the PackageInfos for its changesets & attachments, and somehow communicate those PIs to the BFAV server
      • Maybe by setting an X-header
      • Add another element to the listing? Or maybe have a separate .pi file for every .eml file
    • The PatchArchiveClient should be able to filter based on PI
  • Make BFAV2 SM-account-aware
    • Maybe implement an SMAccountPicker widget?
    • Convert "Cc:" label to button that opens SMAccountPicker
• Evaluate fix/enh code in ClassBox
  • Should be available as a service from the FileList "for free" once ClassBoxes are generally available
• Protect "approval" step in reviewer notepad
  • Check to see if any review steps have been completed
  • Check to see if there are any reviewer comments
  • Warn if the answer is no
  • Check to see if the in-image developer initials match one of the harvesters' initials
    • Don't allow send if no match
• Include Network-Html package
  • So that HTML emails are always filtered
• Show which posts have attachments
• Persist UI settings
• Vet Changeset Files with Built-in Checks
  • http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2003-November/069684.html
  • Should be a file service on changesets
• Tag posts using colors/symbols
  • Mark as read
  • Mark as "come back to me later"
  • Mark as "go away" (i.e. make invisible)
• More robust offline-mode
  • Should be able to work offline and have most of the functionality
    • Identify and delineate in the UI what requires Net connection
  • Maybe have a big button that shows whether BFAV is in Online or Offline mode
• Flag groups for notification
  • "Notify me when this gets [et] or [er]", for example
• Identify other post-groups that touch the same classes
  • Show only groups that touch the same classes
    • OR
  • Show only groups that touch the same classes and methods
• Mark post as "being reviewed by me"
  • Mark with user initials
  • Provide filter for "view only stuff marked by me"
• Package-specific Bug Fixes Archive "channel"
  • Maybe coordinated with a package-specific update stream
• Package version information in posts
  • the version of the package the bug is filed against
  • maybe include all package versions in the image where the bug/fix/enhancement was created (that may become overkill over time)

• Email sender address should include user name
  • "Ned Konz " instead of just "ned@bike-nomad.com"
• Detect when stuff is already in the image
  • Maybe only for some formats initially, like the quite common .cs.gz single attachment
    • Search through ChangeSorter trying to match each of the attachment filenames for a post to a ChangeSet name
• Custom filters
  • Like in Celeste, it would be very handy to allow a user to define their own custom filter in Squeak code. The existing filters can then become pre-defined custom filters.
• Forked process
  • Be able to start up BFAV, hit "load updates" and carry on working on other stuff in the image.