Three more options: * Complete modularization of freenet-ext, allowing for wrapper upgrade. * Add a dismissable "release notes/news" pane to the front page upon upgrade. * Move bandwidth limit questions for the presets out of the wizard and replace with a notification/UserAlert to address them after the node has been set up, starting out assuming low rates.
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Steve Dougherty <st...@asksteved.com> wrote: > It might be reasonable to do darknet invitations: a file which allows > someone to connect with another node over darknet without exchanging > noderefs. (I can't think of how this would work, though.) This could > also, perhaps more conveniently, come baked into a generated > installer. In a similar vein, generated installers could include > additional plugins as well. When I helped someone set up Freenet, FRED > itself was fast, but all the plugins (WoT, Freetalk, FMS, Sone) took a > while to download. Sure, I can carry the .jars/.zips around with me, > but that's annoying and not streamlined. > > More extensively, which probably falls outside the scope and intent of > gun.io, it would be very nice to have code cleanup, review, and > documentation. One cleanup task that occurs to me is separating FProxy > and the rest of the UI from - I'm not sure what to call it: the core? > Such work could involve using FCP to interact with the backend and > using an established templating engine like Apache Velocity Engine. > Review could catch bugs and inform any possible cleanup and > documentation. Documentation would allow others to add Freenet support > to their existing products, or write their own Freenet daemons. It'd > also be good for FRED to have a protocol and load balancing > specification to work from. > > These projects are probably still be too large, and I'm not sure about > putting them on gun.io as I'd like to do them myself, but I'm > interested in realtime public chat using WoT for identities, and more > chat programs/plugins which are compatible with FLIP. I'm hoping to > work on that myself in the form of additions to my chat plugin. There > have also been many posts about a filesharing plugin, which I think is > a great idea, but I haven't noticed reports of progress on any of them > so far. Most recently, fünfnull's "What Freenet really needs" in > eng.freenet on Freetalk mentions this. > > How about posting subtasks for cleaning up WoT/Freetalk? > > -Steve > > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Ian Clarke <i...@locut.us> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Michael Grube <michael.gr...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> If I understand correctly, you pick a task that nobody has time to do. You >>> then outsource that task. People then compete for your money with their >>> solutions. >>> >>> It's like TopCoder but you get paid to win! Awesome. >> >> >> Right, and I think anyone can offer to pay people to perform specific tasks, >> not just the project. >> >> What are some good candidate problems for people to address? We could >> invite both donors and programmers for each problem... >> >> Ian. >> >> -- >> Ian Clarke >> Personal blog: http://blog.locut.us/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devl mailing list >> Devl@freenetproject.org >> http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
