On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > I am de-emphasising a release because frankly Freenet isn't ready, and even > if it was, until the exams I'm only going to have one or two days a week > available, and I need to be around during a major release. That's just what > I'm thinking at the moment, not meaning to undermine Ian or anything. > > I'm also assuming Bombe handles most of the day to day build management, and > I hope that people will flag up important bugs to me - I may not be able to > keep up with FMS regularly for example. So how can I make the maximum > possible impact the most quickly in the limited time available? > > I'm assuming Bombe will release 1406 soon. I'm absolutely delighted if > somebody else takes on any of these tasks, but please let me know when you do! > > Here are some bug-someone issues that are mainly somebody else's area but > where I will be bugging people or might be able to help: > - Freenet: Build 1406 (Bombe) > - Freetalk: Auto-backups and turn off fsync on commit. (Massive improvement) > (p0s) > - Freetalk: Only GC after receiving a full identity list. (Massive > improvement) (p0s) > > The key tasks (for me) are: > > Near term: > - Get the SSL certificate replaced. > - Update various plugins. > - Tweak the peer scaling constant. (1407, soon after 1406). > - Wizard UI tweaks: See devl post "fewer pages" > - Review Sone and deploy as an unofficial plugin. > - Get default manifest putter working for transient + make default. (Some > bugs e.g. on tracker/FMS, talk to Bombe) > > Bigger/harder/less urgent: > - Implement auto-backup and turn off sync-on-commit in Freenet. > - Get default manifest putter working for persistent + make default. (Need to > de-leak it) > - Random routed probe requests, including is-this-reachable. > - Basic implementation of "keep this available". > - Build/tweak a standard test for insert-success-by-number-of-inserts. > - Help digger3 to gather more data. > - Try some of the proposed post-NLM tweaks. > -- E.g. Fully separate CHK vs SSK load management. > - Chase insert-success-by-number-of-inserts empirically. > - Implement invites and related stuff (good for darknet but also for viral > spread) > - Merge the ogg filters. > - Make it easy to change the revocation/update keys. > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
I'd add one to that list. I think Steve Dougherty and I are making good progress on the problems with the current link topology. Assuming we come up with concrete results, tweaks to that may be very important. Monitoring the results from this might require the random routed probe requests first, or there might be other ways. Evan
