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TechIRCd Enhancement Roadmap
🚀 Phase 1: Core Improvements (High Priority)
1.1 Missing IRC Commands (2-3 weeks)
- USERHOST command
- ISON command
- STATS command with detailed server statistics
- TIME command
- VERSION command
- ADMIN command
- INFO command
- LUSERS command
- Enhanced LIST with pattern matching
- SILENCE command for user-level blocking
1.2 Channel Mode Enhancements (1-2 weeks)
- Ban exceptions (+e mode)
- Invite exceptions (+I mode)
- Permanent channels (+P mode)
- Registered-only channels (+r mode)
- SSL-only channels (+z mode)
- Channel forwarding (+f mode)
- Founder protection mode (~q)
- Admin protection mode (&a)
1.3 Security & Authentication (2-3 weeks)
- SASL authentication support
- Certificate-based authentication
- Rate limiting per IP/user
- GeoIP blocking capabilities
- DDoS protection mechanisms
- Enhanced flood protection
- Connection throttling
🌐 Phase 2: Network & Scaling (Medium Priority)
2.1 Enhanced Server Linking (3-4 weeks)
- Burst optimization for large networks
- Network topology visualization
- Automatic failover and recovery
- Load balancing across servers
- Network-wide channel/user sync
- Cluster management interface
- Health monitoring between servers
2.2 Database Integration (2-3 weeks)
- SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL support
- User account persistence
- Channel registration system
- Network-wide ban storage
- Statistics logging
- Audit trail logging
- Data migration tools
2.3 Services Framework (4-5 weeks)
- NickServ implementation
- ChanServ implementation
- OperServ implementation
- MemoServ implementation
- BotServ implementation
- Services API framework
- Plugin system for custom services
📊 Phase 3: Advanced Features (Lower Priority)
3.1 Monitoring & Analytics (3-4 weeks)
- Prometheus metrics integration
- Grafana dashboard templates
- Real-time performance monitoring
- User activity analytics
- Channel analytics
- Alert system with notifications
- Performance profiling tools
- Capacity planning metrics
3.2 Web Interface (4-5 weeks)
- Administrative web panel
- REST API endpoints
- GraphQL query interface
- Real-time dashboard with WebSockets
- Mobile-responsive design
- User management interface
- Channel management interface
- Network topology viewer
- Log viewer and search
3.3 Modern Protocol Support (3-4 weeks)
- IRCv3 capabilities
- Message tags support
- Account tracking
- MONITOR command
- Extended JOIN
- CHGHOST support
- Batch processing
- Server-time capability
🎨 Phase 4: Quality of Life (Ongoing)
4.1 Developer Experience
- Comprehensive test suite (>80% coverage)
- CI/CD pipeline setup
- Automated security scanning
- Performance benchmarking
- Documentation improvements
- Code quality tools integration
- Dependency management
4.2 Deployment & Operations
- Docker containerization
- Kubernetes manifests
- Helm charts
- Configuration management
- Backup and restore tools
- Migration utilities
- Health check endpoints
4.3 Community Features
- Plugin architecture
- Extension API
- Custom command framework
- Event system
- Webhook integrations
- Third-party service connectors
🔧 Technical Debt & Improvements
Code Structure
- Proper package structure (remove
package maineverywhere) - Interface definitions for better testing
- Dependency injection framework
- Configuration validation improvements
- Error handling standardization
- Logging framework upgrade
Performance Optimizations
- Connection pooling
- Message batching
- Memory optimization
- CPU profiling and optimization
- Network I/O improvements
- Concurrent processing enhancements
Security Hardening
- Input validation improvements
- Buffer overflow protection
- Memory safety audits
- Cryptographic improvements
- Secure defaults
- Vulnerability scanning
📈 Implementation Timeline
Total Estimated Time: 6-8 months
- Month 1-2: Phase 1 (Core Improvements)
- Month 3-4: Phase 2 (Network & Scaling)
- Month 5-6: Phase 3 (Advanced Features)
- Month 7-8: Phase 4 (Quality of Life) + Polish
🎯 Quick Wins (Can implement immediately)
- USERHOST command (1 day)
- ISON command (1 day)
- TIME command (1 day)
- VERSION command (1 day)
- Enhanced LIST filtering (2-3 days)
- Ban exceptions (+e mode) (2-3 days)
- Invite exceptions (+I mode) (2-3 days)
- Basic SASL PLAIN (3-4 days)
- Prometheus metrics (3-4 days)
- Basic web stats API (2-3 days)
These improvements would make TechIRCd one of the most feature-complete and modern IRC servers available!