[Grub-dev] where's Grub going?

[Bartek Jasicki]

2008-07-21, 16:28:11
Jeremie Miller <jeremie at jabber.org> wrote:

> This is my personal roadmap for Grub, anyone else with ideas please  
> chime in with your own :)
> 

Okies, than i make my (with my visions), more detailed roadmap for
Grub ;)

1. What we have:
- Clients:
At today we have 3 working clients (I'm not test Java and Bash clients,
they are still functional?): Perl, C and C#. Most stable is C client
(this is my opinion). 
- Server:
Now its Apache server with few Perl scripts which manipulate workunits
and .arc files. Nice improvisation but only improvisation ;)
- Protocol:
Format for workunits (files with list of links): very basic and
format for .arc files (files with crawled sites): can be extended

2. What we need:
- IMHO mainly we need servers for Grub, which can replace current
"servers" (upload server and server with workunits). Without this Grub
project is incomplete (especially, because there no this Perl scripts
in project repository). Plus we can drop Apache dependency ;)
- More flexible format for workunits, at this moment, adding new
options to Grub can be really painful - so, for the future is better
create new.

More detailed proposition for discussion (our favorite time killer ;) ) 
- Separate discussion about both servers: what options they must have
(for example: working only on 80 port or any, API for statistics, etc).
Typical technical discussion. This can affect clients (changes in
connection to servers)too.
- New workunits formats - discussion start some time ago - I propose
resurrect it:
http://lists.wikia.com/pipermail/grub-dev/2008-May/000251.html
This can affect clients and servers (thus maybe we start talk about
this?).
- Protection from virus, phishing pages - using external tools like
clamav or http://www.phishtank.com/ - it can affect .arc file format,
clients and upload server.

Bartek