Ian Clarke schrieb: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Thomas Sachau <tommy at gentoo.org> wrote: > >> One reason to not use pre-compiled stuff is, that you can patch or >> adjust the code before you compile it. In addition, only those patches >> have a chance to go upstream, probably noone will accept a patch against >> the generated javascript code. >> > > How likely is that in practice? In the entire history of Freenet has any > third party felt the need to patch it? This seems like an extreme > edge-case to me, and that it shouldn't dictate key architectural decisions. > > >> Since it is Gentoo policy to give the user this choice and ability, >> shipping the precompiled code is not really an option. >> > > Then perhaps the real problem here is Gentoo's policy? In any case, I > don't think Gentoo's policy should tie our hands one way or another - our > policy is that we need a decent user interface :-)
Do you really think, that having some nice javascript or otherwise adjusted interface would magically raise the numbers of users? Some eye-candy wont keep new users nor will it get you many new users, it is way more important to have a reliable working freenet with some nice additional apps (which themselves should also be reliable). The only reliable working additional apps seem to be FMS and maybe Frost (where the later has of course issues with spam). So due to the spam, the only app left is in the end FMS. Now instead of supporting that, something different is started and suggested (with wot and freetalk), which still have many issues, are not reliable and where until now nobody was able to even tell me, how wot itself works. So what is the experience of new users? Install freenet, see automaticly shipped wot+freetalk, try them, see their issues, maybe browse some sites and uninstall freenet again, since things either do rarely work or there is no content. A cool web-UI wont change those points, so from my perspective, a different interface may be nice, but it wont solve the bigger issues with freenet. -- Thomas Sachau Gentoo Linux Developer -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 380 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20120307/12a47c1b/attachment.pgp>
