On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 15:13 -0800, Ian Clarke wrote: > Guys, I have been working on a draft of our announcement of the > Freenet 0.7 alpha, its in the wiki at: > > http://wiki.freenetproject.org/ZeroPointSevenAnnouncementDraft > > (NOTE that only logged in users will be able to view or edit this). > > If anyone thinks they can improve it, please feel free to give it a > shot. Our goal will be to announce tomorrow. Now is also the time > for any minor tweaking before release, in particular, it is important > that our installation process is seamless, you can see the download > page for 0.7 at: > > http://freenetproject.org/index.php?page=download-new > > All comments are welcome, and should be delivered ASAP,
Hi Ian, I understand that trying to fund the Project is a real need, and the release of a new version is a good idea to have more funding and attention. I fear that this is true only in the short term, but a so anticipated release can adversely affect Freenet in medion to long term. The draft announce, while stating that this is an alpha communicate the idea that a new Freenet is born. This can lead normal users to think: 1) that 0.7 is an upgrade path 2) that they can use in in place of 0.5 for their Freenet needs I think that, to avoid what happened in 0.3 to 0.5 transition (we were without a working Freenet for a very, very long period) the announce must explicitly give information and stress it to avoid this situation. I fear that a lot of user now running 0.5 try to blindly switch to 0.7, have no results, and drop freenet entirely. And that this collapse the 5106 net and all the freesites that are inside ..... Being 0.7 a Darknet totally separate, by data and protocol, from 0.5, it doesn't need a massive switch of user; maybe that only a part 0.5 users choose to run both nodes. JM2C Ciao. Marco -- +--------------- http://www.winstonsmith.info ---------------+ | il Progetto Winston Smith: scolleghiamo il Grande Fratello | | the Winston Smith Project: unplug the Big Brother | | Marco A. Calamari marcoc at marcoc.it http://www.marcoc.it | | DSS/DH: 8F3E 5BAE 906F B416 9242 1C10 8661 24A9 BFCE 822B | + PGP RSA: ED84 3839 6C4D 3FFE 389F 209E 3128 5698 ----------+ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 309 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060403/b9c20d58/attachment.pgp>
