On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 10:01:29AM -0700, Reskill wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I believe this email to be extremely accurate and well written. It echos
> many of the calls we have been making over the last few days regarding
> a production network, and I would particularly like to draw attention
> to:
> >2) Users migrate to a new, separate production network. Current
> >Freenet
> >becomes test network.
> >- - pro: rapid performance improvement for user base. Clean start
> >for
> >production network. Minimal effort for developers.
> >- - con: users need to actively migrate. Test network is cluttered
> >with
> >versions. Psychological effort of "giving up" current Freenet and
> >"giving in" to dissident users.
> 
> I believe that without a clear definition between testing and stable
> networks, recent occurrences regarding network degradation are bound
> to happen again, sooner rather than later. Much better, then, to push
> to a stable "clean slate" with the next well-tested stable build, and
> always maintain this migration step with each significant new stable
> release.

Oh yeah, 'cos we're gonna change the routing algorithm every 3 months
now.

> 
> It is definitely time that new procedures were put into place to safeguard
> network performance and the freenet userbase, especially if any truly
> worthwhile content is to surface in our network.

See my reply to the other mail.
> 
> --Reskill
> 

Run your own fork of freenet if you like, but you will not be able to
enforce everyone running recent stable builds, and if you succeed in
getting 90% of users onto it, development will suffer.

-- 
Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.

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