On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 10:50:17AM +0700, Oskar Sandberg wrote: > > It's not that the code is not stable, it's been more or less stable all > along (more thanks to Java then to us), but that the system is not > stable. I don't feel like running off to put in things like searching and > updating until we know that the the very most basic thing - asking for a > key and getting the data back, works next to perfectly. > >
Bravo! Since there isn't a marketing department, no reason to catch Featuritis. Freenet is a fundamentally *very* different beast, it's not the same old same old, and if you don't have a firm grasp of the 'new' way of thinking about networking, it's hard to contribute usefully. The style of programming is also very 'bottom up', none of the team OOP techniques like CRC cards or the like are being used, so it's very difficult to carve off a piece to work on and be sure that it's going to fit in with what other people are doing. The code base changes -fast-. It may not be apparent from looking at the 'feature list', but a lot of work is going on, and that requires a heavy time commitment to keep current with the code. So, someone like me, with marginal coding skills, no Java experience, and limited time, just isn't going to be that usefull working on the node. Maybe hacking a utility here or there, or kibitzing when I have some applicable knowledge, but that's about it. All the Weekend Warriors just end up overwhelmed. Oh, and then there's the mail archives. How can you get up to speed when the archives are so hard to use? Speaking of which, I have chat and dev archives going back to about March '00 in maildir format if someone wants to host a MHonArc archive. D Schutt _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
