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- - Do we have any progress with this now?
- - Steve, do you intend on working on this?

It would really be nice  to make more use of GSoC projects instead of just 
letting them rot :)

On Thursday, February 20, 2014 08:22:20 PM Chetan Hosmani wrote:
> Hi
> I don't have the time to merge these changes and technically not allowed to
> without obtaining explicit exception from my firm. But I have said several
> times that I can actively help anyone who is willing to do this.
> 
> Regarding the conflicts they will take about 3 hours of concentrated
> effort. Maybe now a little more. It gets a little easier after one merge.
> 
> I can further work with anyone on the documentation for how the plugin is
> to be used too.
> 
> Stream transports was not in a use able state. But yes definitely the
> design involved a messaging system that efficiently allocated messages to
> any transport that was ready for sending messages.
> 
> The code changes refactor a lot of other bits but it's simply too large. It
> requires some good effort to actually release them.
> 
> I heard infinity0 was interested in taking this up. I am willing to help to
> actually release it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chetan
> 
> On Feb 20, 2014 5:13 PM, "Arne Babenhauserheide" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The transport plugin code from chetan is slowly bitrotting in the
> > chetan-transports branch. When trying to merge it into next, there are
> > already merge conflicts, but it does not look serious (just some
> > parameter changes). I did not have the time to fix them, though - it
> > would have sent me on a longer bughunt due to insufficient java
> > skills.
> > 
> > Toad said back then, that the refactoring needed for transport plugins
> > actually made the network code much nicer.
> > 
> > And I remember chetan posting that he had two transport-plugin-enabled
> > nodes talking to each other.
> > 
> > To avoid losing that great work, it would be important to get it
> > merged quickly. Bitrot only gets worse if it is ignored.
> > 
> > I don't know whether StreamTransports were already in a usable state,
> > but I would much prefer having only packet transports for the time
> > being than having no transport plugins at all.
> > 
> > You can find the current code here
> > https://github.com/freenet/fred-staging/tree/chetan-transports
> > 
> > Sadly I did not find the example plugin - the one on github only has a
> > readme: https://github.com/chetanhosmani/plugin-UDP-staging (same on
> > the next branch)
> > 
> > Most new java classes should be referenced here:
> > 
> > https://github.com/freenet/fred-staging/blob/chetan-transports/src/freenet
> > /node/TransportManager.java
> > 
> > It would be really, really cool if someone could step up and
> > review+merge the code!
> > 
> > Best wishes,
> > Arne
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