Hi. With the new year I've decided to start up something I felt Freenet's needed, a weekly mail summary, similar to those for the Linux kernel and various projects at Kernel Cousins (http://kt.zork.net). It'll cover the devl, support and tech mailing lists. The CVS mailing list doesn't really lend itself to summary, and the chat and documentation lists seem dead, and I can't sign up because hawk is apparently dead to me.
This first issue will cover threads from 1/1 to 1/7 - there's obviously interesting messages from before that, but starting this requires some cut off point, and doesn't the new year work nicely? [tech at freenetproject.org] No messages. The last email seems to have been December 20 of 2002. [devl at freenetproject.org] Subject: [freenet-dev] Compiling Freenet for the .NET runtime Date: 01 Jan 2003 09:10:13 +0000 Simon Porter <hailstormxp at fairadsl.co.uk> mentioned his attempts to compile Freenet for the .NET environment, using Visual Studio and the J# language. He felt it would provide a performance boost, although Fish <fish at bovine.artificial-stupidity.net> felt Sun's current JVM would provide similar performance, and felt that using a free .NET vm like Mono should be a goal of any .NET development. Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe at debian.org> was similarly skeptical of speed boosts, and mentioned goran and gcj native compilation. Ian Clarke <ian at freenetproject.org> responded to Robert's comment on Simon Porter's error messages by asking, "Aren't we supposed to be trying not to use anything that isn't in the 1.1 API/Kaffe?" Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> responded with "Kaffe implements more than the 1.1 API." Subject: [freenet-dev] New Anonymity Filter Date: 01 Jan 2003 20:45:19 +0000 Matthew Toseland introduced a new anonymity filter in build 631, which parses the entire HTML file and passes along only acceptable tags, as a way to avoid various CSS identity leaking tricks. There was concern about the limitations, such as lacking CSS support and blocking various tags, but nothing concrete since the filter was introduced solely in the development branch. Later, Matthew revealed an updated version capable of filtering CSS2 properly, again solely in the unstable branch. Subject: [freenet-dev] Stuff to do for 0.5.1 Date: 01 Jan 2003 15:11:03 -0800 Ian Clarke mentioned his work with Tiki, a PHP based Wiki, and requested volunteers and CSS themes.He also mentioned a wish for monthly subscriptions of donations as opposed to one-time payments. The URL is [http://freenetproject.org/tiki/]. Subject: [freenet-dev] (no subject) Date: 02 Jan 2003 20:45:27 +0000 Simon Porter gave his thoughts on the proposed new website. Specifically, he felt the "What is Freenet" section to be the most important part of the site, and attached a sample. There was a fair amount of discussion over how to properly explain Freenet to a non-technical audience. The terms "small-world effect" and "six-degrees-of-seperation" were bandied about as quick and easy ways. [support at freenetproject.org] Subject: [freenet-support] A new member Date: 02 Jan 2003 18:12:13 +0200 Catalin <ady982 at ploiesti.astral.ro> introduced themself as someone interested in ensuring freedom and interested in Freenet, and asked whether Freenet could allow node runners to see what was stored in their node and delete offending material. They also mentioned informing nameless "organizations" about offending material on Freenet, and noted a lack of response. Matthew Toseland diplomatically (this issue has come up before, and is discussed on the Freenet site) reminded Catalin that Freenet by nature is not designed to censor material being passed between nodes. Catalin agreed, and brought up the browser limitation problem, where browsers treat Fproxy as a single server and refuse to open more than X connections, causing pages to freeze until others are retrieved or fail. Der Vagabund <vagabund at users.sourceforge.net> replied with a clip from the readme file detailing the solution, and noted it was not included in the Windows version of Freenet. Subject: [freenet-support] Too many builds! Date: 03 Jan 2003 15:34:15 +0200 Catalin complained about the numerous builds of Freenet, as they had skipped from 539 to 641 in two days. Ian Clarke reminded him that upgrading was not mandatory. Catalin then asked how they could find out what specific bugfixes and improvements were in a build, and Ian pointed him to the cvs at freenetproject.org mailing list, and Greg Wooledge <greg at wooledge.org> pointed him to cvs2cl [http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/]. Subject: [freenet-support] temp files Date: 04 Jan 2003 23:33:54 -0800 Joel M. Baldwin <qumqats at outel.org> mentioned that he had found 125MB worth of files in the Freenet temp directory. Matthew Toseland explained that it was cleaned out on node startup. Joel felt this was unacceptable, as long running nodes would fail to be cleaned out, and thought they should be cleaned every few minutes or hours. He also thought that the node failed to properly clean out temp on startup as claimed. [marcoc1 at dada.it] agreed, saying that his various nodes, using builds 539 to 629) never cleaned out the temp directory, and wished for secure deletion. Matthew said that 629 was old, and later unstable nodes should be okay, and that secure deletion was problematic on journaled filesystems, and almost impossible across platforms. He felt that if it is a big problem, the data should be encrypted with temporary keys. This concludes this weekly mail summary of the various Freenet mailing lists. Hopefully someone will find this useful. Perhaps when the freenet site stops bugging out it could be added somewhere? -- Aaron Kurtz - GnuPG Key ID ED588CF2 - Use it Ignore false slogans. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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