There are a few small things standing between us and our 0.5 release: The datastore corruption bug :- I spoke to Tavin today (he is alive!), and he is rewriting the datastore code, which should take care of this bug. He estimates about a week before he is done.
FProxy :- It is looking good, it does the basics, along with security, and apparently it even supports split files although I have yet to test this personally Windows Installer :- Strangely, the installer that has been available from "Techgrounds" works fine for me, but the installer in the snapshot release didn't work for me when I tested it on W2K. I will get a better bug report, but I am sure it is a minor problem. David's configuration tool is great, although I think it still needs some usability work which won't take long. Linux Installer :- I have modified the Linux snapshot builds to use FProxy, and it works for me. Generally feedback on the Linux Installer has been good, although ultimately a linux installer should install Freenet as a service which is started on boot and stuff like that. Such functionality is probably left to rpm and deb builds, although I don't know of anyone looking at these right now. Website :- I would like to change the colour scheme of the website to signify the new release, but have yet to have any specific suggestions on this. I am concerned about the lack of up-to-date documentation - to address this I will probably install a "Wiki" integrated into the website in the next few days. http//phpwiki.sf.net/ is the current favourite (although it doesn't seem to support "rollback" to previous versions which would be nice in the event of vandalism). Seed nodes :- The current mechanism for providing seed nodes is probably a security risk. It will be very difficult for users to find seed nodes themselves, but relying on a centralized list is undesirable. The optimal solution is probably to set up an obscure node which "harvests" seed nodes from the network, and to provide a URL which allows access to a list of some of these harvested nodes. The more conservative among us would rather that users are instructed to find seed nodes themselves, but I think that this would make installation too difficult for 99.9% of our potential userbase (hell, I would have trouble finding a list of seed nodes without asking on #freenet or something, which is hardly a solution for every user). Since freenet partially relies on safety in numbers, ruling out 99.9% of our userbase would make Freenet much less effective all-round. This is still open to debate, but I suspect that the current mechanism employed in the Linux snapshot will be the default if we don't come up with anything better. Basically, we are really close, I would guess 1 to 2 weeks away. Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20011003/c168243c/attachment.pgp>
