change test cases to not write configs

[oweals/gnunet.git] / TODO

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@@ -8,26 +8,25 @@ away), in order in which they will likely be done:
 * TRACEKIT
 * FRAGMENTATION [Ji Lu]
 * HTTP transport
-* MySQL / Postgres plugins (datastore, datacache) [Radhika]
+* MySQL / Postgres plugins (datastore, datacache)
 * UPNP [Milan]
+* ARM [Safey]
 
 Urgent items (before announcing ng.gnunet.org):
-* topology
-  - HELLO advertising does not work (no solicitation!)
-  - considers peers 'connected' well before they actually are
-    (since core notifies about it too early?)
-  - needs testing
-* hostlist
-  - test fails (looks like it works, but that's because of a bad
-    connectivity notification; somehow core is unable to send
-    messages successfully via transport)
+* TRANSPORT:
+  - main service not implemented [Nate]
+  - testcases crash & burn (no surprise)
 * CORE:
-  - core notifies about connects "too early" (when we have not yet
-    succeeded with the full key exchange) [see also: BUGS]
+  - test currently fails spectacularly [segv of transport service]
+    => need transport to work first!
+  - request connect not working [Christian, need transport first]
+* TOPOLOGY:
+  - needs testing [need transport first]
+* HOSTLIST:
+  - needs testing [need transport first]
 * FS (basic anonymous FS only)
   - implement FS service (P2P operations)
-    + how to send queries (soliciting is not there in core; do we
-      also want to do pushing sometimes?)
+    + implement sending of queries (low-priority push!)
     + need to bound queueing of replies for other peers    
   - test multi-peer search/download
 * new webpage
@@ -43,12 +42,16 @@ Urgent items (before announcing ng.gnunet.org):
   - trust: need *fast* way to check/update trust in peers
            (async peerinfo would not be right)
   - OS: existing waitpid call is not nice (not integratable with scheduler! fix this!)
+    => should 'scheduler' support SIGCHILD explicitly? Always?
 * STATISTICS:
-  - synchronous/asynchronous API (& implementation) is not nice
+  - synchronous/asynchronous API (& implementation) is not nice;
+    => provide notification-based API
   - does not seem to work with timeouts (especially if service is not running)
 * ARM:
   - need to get rid of synchronous API for service starts (cause all kinds of problems)
-    [=> eliminate for need to tell ARM about service starts most of the time!]
+    [=> eliminate for need to tell ARM about service starts most of the time!] [Safey]
+* HELLO:
+  - need function to test "equivalency" of HELLOs; use in topology!
 * Module features to implement:
   - advanced FS API parts
     + namespaces: fundamental namespace API
@@ -170,3 +173,8 @@ Urgent items (before announcing ng.gnunet.org):
   (add options to gnunet-search / gnunet-download to limit search to local peer)
 * STATISTICS:
   - should use BIO instead of mmap
+* PEERINFO:
+  - expire 'ancient' HELLOs (those without valid addresses AND that 
+    we have not 'used' (for their public keys) in a while; need a way
+    to track actual 'use')
+  - make sue we also trigger notifications whenever HELLOs expire