What's your response? It does seem rather triumphalist - "Initially Freenet 0.7 will be a "pure darknet" model" - this seems to suggest that 0.7 is ready... we have a long way to go yet, 0.7-a1 is not secure, and this must be made clear... I have modified it slightly.
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 10:19:08AM +0200, Marco A. Calamari wrote: > 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 ----------+ > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060403/e28a7370/attachment.pgp>
