Roadmap

distro-tracker.

Main script.

version 1.2 :

  • Creation of a Flatpak package.
  • Support for CSV & YAML for external storage of URLs to track, files produced by distro-url.
  • Migrate report features to distro-reporter, a standalone script, to improve usability and capabilities (–report will be removed).
  • Optimizations on NOK & Ping tests.

version 1.3 :

  • Distribution URLs in an indexed array, no more limitation to 2.

distro-url.

Utility that generates URL files to parse for the ‘–source’ option of distro-tracker. The generated files are in CSV, JSON & YAML formats.

version 1.1 :

  • Distribution URLs in an indexed array, no more limitation to 2.

distro-reporter.

Utility that analyzes the results from distro-tracker to generate change reports between old and new data, and publish them on various platforms.

version 1.0 :

  • Transfer the features present in distro-tracker, with automatic file detection.
  • Differentiate upgrades from downgrades.
  • Enable support for publishing on Facebook, Jekyll, WhatsApp & WordPress.

distro-converter.

Utility that analyzes the results from distro-tracker to convert data to and from CSV, JSON, YAML, Markdown, and HTML formats. It consolidates the former distro-csv2html and distro-csv2md.

version 1.0 :

  • Consolidate distro-csv2html and distro-csv2md.
  • Import conversion functions currently present in distro-tracker.
  • Provide the following conversions: CSV to HTML/MD/JSON/YAML.

distro-manager.

Utility for managing downloaded ISO images - development not yet started.

version 0.1 :

  • Create a function to control the number of ISO images used.