TODO

Fix in next release

• Add section with uninstalled packages
• Implement user configuration in ~/.config/tracer/tracer.conf
  • DEFAULT_OPTS
  • PACKAGE_MANAGER
  • Document user configuration
    • XML files
    • Config file
• Fix releasing version on non-english system
• Implement hooks functionality
  • No need for --hooks-only parameter, its possible to use tracer &> /dev/null
    • Actually if some hook side effect is only printing, the command above will throw it away with the rest of tracer's output.
  • Implement function decorator to have @match("app_name") or @match(["app_name1", "app_name2"]). Other possible names can be @on, @when, @app, @hook ...
  • Hook function will have only *args and **kwargs arguments
  • Hook directory will be data/hooks and ~/.config/tracer/hooks
• Add --services-only and --daemons-only equivalent arguments (tracer --packages at -n -e)
• Autodetect services and daemons (See /usr/lib/systemd/system/atd.service)
• Probably trace services separately, because i.e. service files aren't showed by lsof

Fix in <=0.6.0

• Python3 support
  • Fedora: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211258
  • Try even DNF plugin on python3
• Package for pip
• Add section in -s showing what other applications the current one affects
• Obsolete tracer pkg1 pkg2 with tracer -p pkg1 pkg2. Argument is -p or --packages
• Incorrectly shown applications:
  • Don't appear: xfce4-terminal
  • WTF with: ssh-agent in Xfce
  • Interpreters: sh
  • Add functionality for apps to rename="dest_app_name". See applications abrt-dump-journal-oops and abrt-watch-log
  • Add helper_note to show additional info only in --show: Nautilus, Thunar, pcmanfm
• Change default rule to print or return (no, call-parent will be the default action, but print is renamed to return
• Rewrite "Get Tracer" for Fedora. DNF repos are not needed
• Provide very simple API
  • Implement Query class providing methods:
    • affected_applications() returning a set()
  • Methods will be lazy and return instance with run() or get() method
  • Classes Package, Application, Process will be in API
• Use standard localization system
  • Document it in Developer guide

Fix in 0.5.5

• Provide informations about resources tracer --show-resource=xy for
  • processes
  • packages
  • rules
  • applications
  • system (distribution, tracer's version, package manager, init system, uptime, users)
  • Update manual page
• Print helpers for all arguments passed to --show
• Don't print tracer, its subprocesses or its sudo in processes list
• Create manpage
• Fix that stupid design when package_info(...) method has app_name argument.
  • Implement Package::load_info() which will create package manager object and call its load_package_info(...) on self

Fix in 0.5.0

• Documentation generator and versioning documentation with code
• If process is affected by its child, print that in "affected by" helper section
• Implement possibility to action="ignore" for Applications
• Probably print more lines of 'state' in helper when multiple application instances
• Cache list of packages from package managers
• When showing helper, dont print how to restart if application actually doesnt need restart
• Print sudo ... in 'how to restart' when user is not root
• Issue #9
• UX Redesign
• ProcessesList.exclude_type(app_type) should just return ProcessesList.exclude_types([app_type])

Older

• Print defined helpers
• User only mode
  • By default print only processes for which user have permissions to restart them
  • Add -r or --root mode to show system processes
  • Add -e or --everyone mode to show everyone's processes
  • Add -u or --user mode to show specific user's processes
• Wait some time and reimplement dnf-tracer-plugin to use transaction API (see 46b6b83)
• Add -a or --all mode to list even session and static applications
• Add --helpers parameter to not list applications, but list their helpers
• Add information about what packages caused the modification, into the helper
  • In verbose mode print even matching files
    • When updated package owning showed application, dont print its files, but something
• Run tests in make release
• Add possibility to have user defined applications.xml in /home and /etc directories. Mainly for ignoring system-specific applications. Common applications should be reported and moved into /usr/share
• Remove duplicate files from 'affected by' section in helper
• Probably dont print 'how to restart' section in helper for type Application
• Reimplement helpers on Gentoo to not use equery
  • provided_by(...) - equery
  • package_info(...) - eix
• Make Application values available through properties
• Deal with interpreted processes in helpers on Fedora [!]
• Debug the _filename_without_version
• Use rpm -qf /bin/ls --queryformat '%{NAME}\n' instead of _package_without_version