I missed one: Get the new wininstaller working and deployed. It now supports localisation so is not a regression from the current installer.
Having said that, it looks like we can get away with very little work on plugins, so I will very soon be moving on to building the loading a page screen. On Monday 20 April 2009 13:48:48 Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Monday 20 April 2009 00:12:43 Ian Clarke wrote: > > Hey Matthew, > > > > What is the current status of things with respect to getting a > > publicity-worthy release out soon? > > Most of my recent work has been related to supporting Freetalk, and post-merge > fixes for db4o. In particular, the auto-update system needed to be improved > somewhat before releasing 1207, and various improvements to USK > fetching/polling were needed for Freetalk (this is largely finished now). > Further work on plugins will definitely be necessary, although the path ahead > is clear and this should not take more than a few days to a week. Then it's > on to the progress page, which should not take more than a few days. There > have been several reports of corrupted databases causing the node not to > start up, often due to power failure etc, so it will be necessary to > implement some form of auto-backup, which involves taking the database > offline while we write the backup, auto-restoring it if startup fails, and > not deleting stuff until the next backup point; this will be several days. > There are some sporadically reported download/upload bugs, and there will > need to be work on bootstrapping, as automatic testing frequently fails on > this point. Four of our seednodes are offline, I will send a request for more > today. Most other bugs can likely wait until a full (0.8 not 0.8 beta) > release. > > p0s is actively working on Freetalk/WoT and has completed some major > refactoring work, more debugging and more UI work is needed, he guesstimates > 2 weeks for it to be basically finished. > > Other recent developments include saces building a working multi-container > freesite inserter. This will considerably improve performance for inserting > and especially for browsing/fetching big freesites or big hg/git inserts. It > does however need considerable work (activation, storing stuff when changed, > debugging the inevitable database leaks) to be persistence compatible. I do > not have time, and I'm guessing it would take saces a lot longer than it > would take me, so it will probably be turned off in 0.8 beta 1. > > The FEC changes may or may not make the release. When built on my machine, or > Tommy[D]'s, the native 64-bit FEC library segfaults. IMHO native 64-bit FEC > would improve performance for freesites slightly on amd64, especially if the > data is cached, although decoding/encoding large long term downloads is > dominated by disk seeking. > > Nextgens has been working on some major optimisations to the messaging core on > a branch, I haven't looked at this yet. > > And we have accepted 5 students for GSoC, between our four mentors. These are > not completely absolutely finalized yet, but should be later today (things > could still change due to last minute slot reallocation causing new > duplicates). Currently, they include a distributed searching project, a bunch > of improvements to the centralised searching system, making the web interface > more dynamic, work on content filtering, and work on friend-to-friend > functionality and introduction. > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090420/f24b09f1/attachment.pgp>
