On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:32:08 -0500 (CDT), Brandon wrote: >There definitely is some magic involved, though not deep magic. There is a >whole body of terminology and assumptions that we've made up and that >newcomers are therefore totally unfamiliar with. This can be >intimidating.
True. I have taken a look at the sources the past few days and tried to understand the concepts used. Today I finally got most of the keytypes stuff. The keytypes doc on the website might be clear to most of you, but it wasn't to me at first. Perhaps I would have understood it quicker if I had the chance to look at the discussions that led to these keytypes. But the Geocrawler archive site is more or less useless for that (don't want to browse it online, and it doesn't even show threads!) There must be a better way to archive the lists. I think the reason there aren't more active developers is the lack of documentation. Most people seem to prefer coding over documenting, which is understandable of course. But it slows down the whole process and prevents new people from entering the coding 'pipeline'. >I think the solution to the developer problem is to come up with a list of >enhancements that could be made without intimdate knowledge of the code >and terminology. I think a lot of people just don't know where to >start. One thing that people could work on is alternative transport >systems. That's mostly independent of the codebase and the different key >types, routing methodology, and other such things that people generally >get really confused about on a regular basis. This would help a lot. Is there a kind of roadmap that describes the features that should be included in the next release, up to the final version? This roadmap could be updated after every discussion about features etc. where some kind of consensus has been reached, with that final message/proposal included. This way, new developers can quickly get an overview what needs to be done. As it is now, most of the discussions from the past is lost to new developers. Nevertheless, I hope I can contribute to Freenet in the future. Martin -- FemFind - SMB/FTP search engine (GPL'd) http://femfind.codefactory.de/ Other projects: http://www.codefactory.de/ _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
