On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 03:42:39PM -0400, Gianni Johansson wrote: > On Saturday 19 October 2002 13:54, Ian wrote: > > > > For PR purposes, we need to decide which day we will do the 0.5 release. > NO! > > We should not decide release deadlines based on PR concerns. > > We should do the release only after the code is stable. The only way to know > the code is stable is to test it. > > I would suggest at a minimum, *after* the Windows installer is working > perfectly we freeze CVS, bump the minimum build number to force all > non-release candidate nodes off the network and test for at least one week. Done. > Two would be better. > > There two things that I want to get in before a freeze: > 0) Cleaner handling of undecodable splitfiles in the fproxy SplitFile > downloading ui. > 1) Update the FEC code in freenet_ext.jar to use the onionnetworks 1.0.3 > release which has full source for all support libraries. The changes between > 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 are small. The output should be bit-for-bit compatible so > this shouldn't be a disruptive change. Aha. Hmm. Necessary for GPL compliance if we bundle freenet-ext.jar. > > I should be done with these by the end of the weekend. Cool. > > Also I haven't gotten any recent feedback on fproxy fec support under > windows. There was some weird stuff going on with InternalClient insertion > the last time I looked at it (~=1.5 weeks ago). I saw that mt fixed the /0 > bug. Does fec inserting and retrieving work on windows now? See other message. > > If things look good we could freeze at 0 PST Monday. > > I wouldn't even consider making announcements to press until after we have > tested for at least a week. > > > --gj > > > > > Getting good PR coverage is essential, > Hyping freenet is a bad idea. When it works well people with tell other > people about it and the userbase will grow organically until journalists > start to call you. > > > > as it will lead to wide > > deployment and more donations > !!! > We should not be manipulating press coverage to make money. :) > > > with which we may be able to extend > > Matthew's employment if he is interested in that. > Are we really short of money? If so just put a request on the > freenetproject.org site asking for donations. I would be surprised if > you didn't get whatever is nescessary. > > --gj > > > ---------------------------------------- > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; charset="us-ascii"; > name="Attachment: 1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Description: > ---------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > devl mailing list > devl at freenetproject.org > http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl >
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