Ian has found some more funding, so we are okay for another 6-8 months. This will be announced properly shortly. This relieves the pressure to get something out regardless of what it is. So we can have a sensible discussion on: 1. What should be in 0.8? 2. When to release 0.8?
My current view: We have a pretty good basis for a release already, but we need a lot more debugging, we probably need a load more optimisation on db4o (if discussions on the support list are anything to go by), there are a few features we have already agreed are essential, which are mostly easy, there is Freetalk, and there is Bloom filter sharing. IMHO Bloom filter sharing will make a *BIG* difference to Freenet's performance and therefore to the success (users, content, donations) of 0.8.0. We should aim for a beta in the not too distant future, however IMHO we should aim to implement the essential and very important features below before releasing it, and even a beta needs to be reasonably usable in terms of bugs; we will very likely need further optimisation on db4o to make Freenet practically usable for all users. So I am suggesting that we allow 2-3 months for feature work, fixing major bugs, and further optimising db4o, and release a beta in July. After that we have final bugfixing aiming for a final 0.8.0 before say October. FEATURES: Essential: - Freetalk. Freetalk needs to work well. Any essential plugin changes for Freetalk. (Mostly down to xor) - The new wininstaller. This is essential, we need Vista support, unfortunately it's not going to disappear much as we might want it to! (Easy) - MHKs (or DHKs) - redundant CHKs for the top block of a splitfile (no, I don't like RHK, it sounds too much like RSK, and R stands for Revocable not Redundant). (Reasonably easy) - Various minor usability tweaks. (Mostly easy but lots of it) - Fix, or at least disappear, the "N peers forcibly disconnected due to not acknowledging packets" bug/message. (???) Very important: - Bloom filter sharing and all its dependancies: Client-cache, don't cache while HTL is at maximum, transitional arrangements for old nodes' datastores. (Estimate 4 weeks for working and thoroughly debugged) Fairly important: - Multi-container freesite inserts. saces' work is pretty much working afaik, but it needs to be made fully persistence aware and debugged and de-leaked. - Update plugins over Freenet. - Pause mode. Easy and would be nice: - Solve the last-segment-has-less-redundancy problem for splitfiles. - Guesstimate the monthly transfer usage for each bandwidth setting on the bandwidth selection screen. - Deploy the new x86-64 FEC code. - IM-friendly noderefs. Would be nice: - Javascript support for loading inline images on a page. - Audio/video filters, plus an increased maximum file size when using the progress page. - Hierarchical DBRs for USK updating.
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