ToDo

Soon

Dev environment

• switch to sqlite? (probably not, but may bring it back in later)
• switch from PSP to something with more scaffolding?
• automate setting up a dev server

Toolkit work

• port text-formatting from Fi toolkit
• implement http.error that really returns a page
• fixup basic.py to provide simple header/footer function. Allow override for site-specific header/footer
• check DB connection params

FeedMyTV core

• PluginManager to auto-instantiate plugins
• simple daemon management to provide normal startup/shutdown of long-running plugins
• add a FeedFetcher as part of the core, but which hands off individual items to plugins that have registered an interest
• add scaffolding for player plugins (presumably with some kind of

chain-of-responsibility approach to find the best one to use)

• possibly add scaffolding for streaming-playout, but only if there's a strong candidate for a site that distributes that way where fetch-then-playout won't provide a better user experience.
• add some scaffolding to allow plugins to have their own settings. Simple name/value/type list, for a fairly reasonable list of types (string, directory path, file path, number (with opt min/max) and a few others). Plugins should also be allowed to do extra validation. We'd then have a single page, or set of pages to change any settings.

FeedMyTv plugins

• repackage VLC-playout in a plugin form
• add a hellanzb plugin, with 'nice' registration of startup, shutdown and status functions
• add an NZB search plugin (probably using newzleech's RSS feeds) which supplies links to GET the .nzb over HTTP/SSL
• have hellanzb plugin declare that it would like to grab the .nzb files (or rather the appropriate MIME type (application/x-nzb?)), and move them to a watched directory
• add some kind of .torrent search plugin; ideally start with something like legaltorrents.com
• add a Transmission plugin
• add a search plugin for looking for broadcatch feeds in something like the Miro directory
• add search and fetch plugins for some sensible sites which really publish their own data. Could do one for the Beeb's availablecontent feed, but it is quite limited.
• add settings panels for each plugin. Each plugin can do what it likes with the values - but often we'd want to write them back to the genuine config file (e.g. the hellanzb.conf file) and we should make it easy to roll-back.

Later features

• messaging / recommendations
• cleverer meta-data lookup
• better ways to subscribe to long-running channels. Want to do something beyond the Miro approach, but that keeps the useful feeds and searches at a higher level of abstraction than the particular search plugins.