Towards 2.3...

[Russ Allbery]

Brian Kantor <brian at UCSD.Edu> writes:

> I'm probably going to get flamed for this, but I don't think anyone has
> ever implemented and distributed any news software that had anything
> more than the simple user and password stuff in it.  Last time I
> checked, even the "reference implementation" didn't do authentication
> and authorization the same way as INN does.

We have some weird stuff here internally, but yes, in general I believe
you're correct.  INN would be a good place to start, particularly if we
turn inews into something better for Unix newsreaders again, since we have
both server and client.

> BTW, I'd really like to encourage someone to start writing even the
> simplest regression test packages that can be included with the
> distribution and used to test an installation of INN.  'inncheck' is
> great but only scratches the surface.

Funny that you should mention this....  :)

I've been working separately on the beginnings of a test infrastructure.
This likely won't make 2.3, but expect to see the beginnings of this at
least in 2.4.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>