On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > On Friday 29 October 2010 17:24:30 Robert Hailey wrote: >> It's too bad that there is not a way to experiment on the whole >> network without negatively effecting it; e.g. it would be *very* bad >> if a routing change prevented update-over-freenet. I guess we could >> run two parallell networks, but would require reduplicating much code. > > Update Over Mandatory means auto-update will work in *almost* all cases > unless we *really* mess things up in e.g. the transport layer or announcement.
I suggest we advertise a specific (testing) version for a certain time slot: version 3000, in effect from Thursday November 11 2010 12:00 UTC to Thursday November 11 2010 13:00 UTC If you start advertising it early (on the 7th for example) then all nodes will have had plenty of time to download the testing version. After an hour of testing (of after an hour of fatal Freenet outage), every node will revert to the stable version and everything will be back to normal. We already had a small discussion about this over IRC. A possible problem that came up was that it would be bad if the clock on some of the nodes would be out of sync. I suppose it wouldn't really matter if it is only a small fraction of the nodes. - Gerard
