[Xastir] Igate wish list

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 23 May 2005, Tony Hunt wrote:

> These are only sugestions for the wish list that I believe would enhance
> Xastir. Not everybody would use these features of course but there are many
> other features allready in Xastir that I probably woulnt use myself and
> thats fine by me..
>
> 1:  Some sort of Limiting factor of Frames per minute to RF from the Net
> would be handy for posit frames. This I guess would involve a Que buffer of
> sorts . When the limit of frames per minute (or 5 mins etc) is reached then
> frames are then dumped from the Que. Thats a pretty rough description
> anyway.
>
> 2: A system where another set of callsign parameters can be setup in the
> nws-stations.txt file perhaps. These callsigns get priority in the Que
> basically. One might put callsigns for IRLP node status or WX stations in
> there.. These calls basically need to jump the Que so that they never get
> dumped off the Que. The traffic they carry is priority in the sense that
> they change status very often. A sensible limit to the number of calls used
> in this list would have to be observed obviously.
>
> 3: Messaging traffic still needs to take priority and not get Qued. I guess
> this is obvious.

If one were to use Xastir as some sort of pipe to get a bunch of
packets onto RF, I could imagine needing these sorts of things.

What the intended use is (as far as I know) is to do messaging
back-and-forth between remote and local RF users, and to pass
weather alerts through to RF (which can be quite critical in some
areas).

The intention was never to put a bunch of position or other packets
through to RF, in fact the majority of the Xastir igate activity
will always be from RF->INET.

If you have uses which are different than these, then we could
certainly (over time) do tweaks to accomodate them.  You start by
adding such ideas to the RFE list (Feature Request list, or Request
For Enhancement list).  That way the ideas are captured and not
forgotten.

At various times some of the developers or user-programmers might be
looking for ideas to implement and have a bit of extra time.
Getting your idea on that list and explained well is the first step
to getting it implemented, unless it's important enough to you to
code it up yourself and submit back to the developers.

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