On Friday 15 October 2010 14:49:55 Matthew Toseland wrote:
> IMHO before 0.8.0-pre1/beta1/alpha1 we need:
>
> Freetalk working. Duh!
> - Depends on p0s.
>
> The new wininstaller deployed.
> - It works. It needs a new update.cmd script. I will deal with this if Zero3
> doesn't.
>
> Auto-backups of node.db4o.
> - This includes fixing the node.db4o.crypt crypto.
>
> Fix Library.
> - Currently we search the new and old format indexes. The old format indexes
> are unmaintainable, but the new format indexes generally fail during search.
> - We need to make some further changes to the format, in particular we need
> to not depend on a top block at each level of each tree.
>
> To implement the easy wins on the user interface:
> - Use the minimalist theme! I will post about this.
> - Fix some strings.
> - Various minor fixes proposed on the bug tracker.
>
> I would have been prepared to release 0.8.0 without the disruptive network
> changes mentioned in the other thread, if Freetalk had been ready and the
> network hadn't blown up. The network blowing up was in retrospect my fault,
> as usual, due to a fairly simple bug. However given the security issues,
> given major progress on new load management already made, the relatively good
> performance of the network (especially bootstrapping) at the moment, given
> that zidel's code is so close to merging, and given that we have funding, I
> do think we should proceed with new load management and merging zidel's new
> packet format.
>
> Given that an alpha generally needs to be feature complete and not
> excessively buggy, and given that it will likely be at least another few
> weeks before Freetalk is ready, IMHO a timetable of late January is feasible
> for the above.
>
> I will create a wiki page shortly.
>
http://new-wiki.freenetproject.org/Freenet_0.8_roadmap
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