The Road to Version 1.0

[David Relson]

G'day,

The primary goals for bogofilter-1.0 are to have a program that is useful, 
capable, and stable.  Bogofilter-0.10.2 (with patches) fulfills the first 
two of these goals but (due to needing the patches) doesn't fill the third 
goal.  Here are the milestones I see on the road to 1.0.  Version numbers 
and dates (approximate) are included.

*** Milestone 1 - version 0.10.3

A bugfix, patch release for 0.10.2.  We currently have patches for parsing, 
locking, database access speed, documentation, etc that are due to be 
included.  I see these included and released as 0.10.3 towards the end of 
this week.

*** Milestone 2 - version 0.11

The most significant pending change is using the Robinson-Fisher algorithm 
as bogofilter's default.  Given user preference for 2-state classification, 
that will be the default.

Other changes for 0.11 will include the internal rework to used word_t* and 
buff_t* variables for message and token strings.  Tagging of subject line 
tokens will be working soon.  There may be additional changes like 
additional html processing and a rework of the mime processing code, but 
those are less certain.

The projected date for version 0.11 is the end of this month.

*** Version 1.0 ***

Presuming that 0.11 is stable, version 1.0 will follow in another 3 to 4 
weeks - around the end of March.


... and this is what I foresee in the next couple of months as bogofilter 
progresses towards its 1.0 release.

David