A Proposed Road Map of Plugin Development

About this Document

At present this is just some ideas I have. The primary purpose of this document is therefore to serve as a starting point for goal setting.

Call it a 'straw man', or 'target practice'. Its purpose is to have people take shots at it. Expect it to change without warning based on those discussions.

Road Map

Overall Goals:

• Increase Reliability
• Increase Security
• Provide standard construction and testing tools
• Get more plugins written

Release 1.2.8

The primary goal of release 1.2.8 will be to resolve all outstanding bugs and document functioning on a variety of platforms, including Linux (Redhat 5.2/6.0/6.1, Suse, Corel, Caldera, Debian), FreeBSD, Solaris, HPUX, and IRIX)

The goal is to compile and run with no warns on all of the systems named.

Also:

• Handle redirects in check_http
• Check for strings and regexp's on check_http

Release 1.3.n

Development branch.

• Standardize to GNU-style options (single-dash for short, doulble-dash for long)
• Use Getopt instead of handcoding option selection (may require including library with code)

Release 1.4.n

Stable release to be based off 1.3.n branch

Please make comments on netsaintplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

Karl DeBisschop