v8 Roadmap [WIP]

[confuser]

Plugin Changes

• Migrate Geoip functions into a separate addon - BanManager-GeoIp
  • Not used very much according to stats, and would significantly reduce the overall JAR size
• Migrate Report functions into a separate addon - BanManager-Reports
  • Not all users want to use this and often find it conflicts with their existing reporting system
  • Currently not useable on BungeeCord due to a lack of player locations and therefore must work on Bukkit/Sponge side with BanManager on the proxy only
• Migrate report logs from WebEnhancer to BanManager-Reports
• Remove data conversions/imports support for other plugins
  • Most users will only use this as a one off
  • This can be handled by a web based UI which accepts different database dumps
    • Decouples from plugin itself, enabling additional migrators to be added without BanManager plugin releases
    • Support converting to and from BanManager to allow users to migrate between different punishment plugins easily
  • Only to be removed once UI is completed
• Use SQL transactions where possible for robustness
  • Historically the plugin leveraged MyISAM, however it's InnoDB based now
• Improve database outage resiliencies
  • The plugin uses an in memory cache to prevent banned players from joining the server when the database is down
    • This has become less viable over the years as more features have been added, as such, review common events (such as server joins)
    • Add a database healthchecker and ensure exception handling doesn't dump lots of errors during these periods, perhaps disable sync/polling tasks during this state
• Migrate global functionality into a separate addon - BanManager-Global (name TBD)
  • Given this option is to enable networks to use individual bans per server, whilst retaining the ability to ban a player across all servers, it often causes confusion for users who wish to use the same bans on all servers on a network
• Re-add notifications of new releases when player's with update permission node joins server
• Investigate PostgreSQL support
• Create BanManager-Jails addon
• Create BanManager-Sync addon
  • Historically the plugin has always used polling to sync data between servers. This is still useful for syncing changes from non-plugin apps such as the WebUI.
  • This addon should allow sending data changes over Lillypad/BungeeCord messaging systems for faster updates

Configuration Changes

• Migrate local to database as a top level option
• Remove database leakDetection
• Allow additional JDBC options to be passed if user requires
• Revisit messages.yml to allow multiple localisations

CI/CD

• Migrate from maven to gradle
  • Ensure BanManagerCommon dependencies are correctly useable by addons such as WebEnhancer, currently it's quite messy and requires both common and bukkit/sponge builds
• Migrate from travis to GitHub Actions

[A248]

Support converting to and from BanManager to allow users to migrate between different punishment plugins easily

I really like this idea. If you add it to BanManager, I'll add it to LibertyBans as well -- on my word and honor.

It'll show the competition we are fearless. No proprietary plugin would do the same. Neither would a plugin desperate for users.