At 04.08 15/08/02 -0700, you wrote: >I met a very interesting group of people at DEFCON who, believe it or=20 >not, are actually using Freenet to disseminate information in China,=20 >they have a website at http://freenet-china.org/. > >They have translated Freenet to Chinese and claim that they have a=20 >healthy user-base, they are distributing it on floppy-disk (to do this=20 >they have modified it to work with Microsoft's jview)! > >I pointed out that Freenet was still in development, but they assured me=20 >that everyone using it is informed-of and fully accepts the risks. > >One thing that was somewhat shocking is that they are actually using=20 >Freenet 0.3, when I asked them why they answered that the main problem=20 >with 0.4 was that we keep obsoleting previous versions which makes it=20 >unsuitable for their use at this time. This is a shame as 0.4 contains=20 >a number of important security improvements over 0.3. > >Thus, I think we really need to consider seriously whether we can give=20 >our user base some assurances as to how frequently we will increase the=20 >last permitted build setting. It seems that given Freenet is working=20 >relatively well right now (at least, better than 0.3) we might be=20 >getting close. I would further argue that when we do this we should=20 >call it 0.5 - we have procrastinated long enough. > >I would say, however, that one requirement for releasing 0.5 would be to=20 >the the node distribution servlet working well, and start encouraging=20 >people to use it. > >Thoughts? Comments? Insults?
Just one thing Ian. Do you remember my post about preserving 0.3 till 0.4 was stable enought to preserve contents ? Do you remember that one year ago I was stressing the concept that killing 0.3 was a bad service for people using it, and that *there was* people using it ? In one of the Italian 0.3 nodes (tatooine.homelinux.net) I found a lot of evidence that people in China was using 0.3. If you want more info on this, I suppose it's better go crypto and out - of - list; too much detail here can hurt someone there. Ciao. Marco -- + il Progetto Freenet - segui il coniglio bianco + * the Freenet Project - follow the white rabbit * * Marco A. Calamari marcoc at dada.it www.marcoc.it * * PGP RSA: ED84 3839 6C4D 3FFE 389F 209E 3128 5698 * + DSS/DH: 8F3E 5BAE 906F B416 9242 1C10 8661 24A9 BFCE 822B + _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
