* On 14 Oct 2001 04:23 CEST, Ian Clarke <ian at hawk.freenetproject.org> wrote: > I think it might be more productive if you chose one or more simple > tasks and tried to achieve them, then tried more complex stuff etc etc. > By all means read the published papers, but most of the other > documentation is outdated.
[...] > People don't want to do any coding until they understand what is going > on, but the only way to find out what is going on is to code! Choose a > problem, and try to fix it - that is the best way to learn about > the Freenet codebase. I agree, with two personal additions: * I like a combination of coding and reading documentation in parallel when getting to know something; that way the theory supports the practice and vice versa. * I prefer to have some _basic_ idea of how a system works before I start digging around in it, so I know where to start. That said, how about small tasks that needs to be done? Something I'm personally missing is a possibility to shut down the node cleanly - I remember some discussion about possible admin commands in the FCP which would be used to authenticate and provide access to admin tasks like shutdown. I was wondering why one could not instead use an admin program which uses IPC to talk to the node and thereby instructs it what to do. /Daniel -- Daniel ?borg <tjost at ctrl-c.liu.se> _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
