This document explains in as much details as possible the list of planned changes and work to be done on the Ranch project. It is non-exhaustive and subject to change. Items are not ordered.
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Write examples.
Ideally we would have one complete example per folder.
Examples should be commented. They may or may not be used for writing the user guides.
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Continuous performance testing.
Initially dubbed the Horse project, Ranch could benefit from a continuous performance testing tool that would allow us to easily compare the impact of the changes we are introducing, similar to what the Phoronix test suite allows.
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Transport upgrades.
Some protocols allow an upgrade from TCP to SSL without closing the connection. This is currently not possible through the Ranch API.
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Resizing the acceptor pool.
We should be able to add more acceptors to a pool but also to remove some of them as needed.
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Add Transport:secure/0.
Currently Ranch checks if a connection is secure by checking if its name is 'ssl'. This isn't a very modular solution, adding an API function that returns whether a connection is secure would fix that issue.