* Matthew Toseland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-10-30 12:48:19]:

> I'm CCing this to devl, hope you don't mind.
> 
> On Thursday 30 October 2008 05:13, you wrote:
> > Bank balance:  $4,820.11
> > 
> > Paypal: $1,250.11
> 
> That's another 2.5 months at current exchange rates ... less if the UK 
> economy 
> rises / US economy falls. We should reinstate the paypal counter (including 
> the bank balance) before begging for money.
> > 
> > We need to start thinking about raising more $$$.  I can try Google
> > again, but who knows whether they'll be willing to contribute :-/  We
> > may need to rely on existing users, and the shitty economy won't help.
> 
> Tor had funding from all over the place - EFF, DARPA, ... :| I guess we're 
> considerably more controversial, and more conceptually complex (everyone 
> wants anonymous web browsing) ... I doubt Google would give us any more, but 
> do what you have to. It probably doesn't help that by traditional measures 
> our anonymity is relatively weak, but then only those who watch the 
> literature will know this ... :| (IMHO in practice it's not *that* bad, 
> especially on darknet, but there is more work to do).
> > 
> > Any chance we can do a significant release in the near future?
> 
> 0.8alpha1 would certainly be feasible within the period ... I don't think we 
> have time to stabilise for a full 0.8.0, but I could be wrong. Thoughts?
> 
> 0.8.0-alpha1:
> - The db4o branch merge (any week now)
> - The salted hash store (we need to turn this on for new nodes)

I think we should do it.
@sdiz: are you still opposing for it to be done?

> - Hopefully a first draft of the FMS plugin, p0s is doing great work on it 
> (we 
> need a better name for it since it since won't be compatible with the C++ 
> FMS)
> - FOAF routing and no-swap-on-opennet : likely improve overall performance 
> and 
> data persistence significantly, although hard to measure (anyone listening, 
> has freenet improved performance in the last few months??)

We need some theoretical input here: do we want hybrid nodes to take
part to swapping or not? Making the change is trivial enough to be
doable before the release.

> - Nextgens' recent work on compression should significantly improve 
> performance for freesite browsing once they have been updated by roughly 
> cutting container sizes in half. (.zip -> .tar.lzma)

It's not quite ready yet... but will be in a few days time.
The thing is: we need content to be re-inserted for the performance to be
improved... that takes time and doesn't depend on us ;)

> - Better bandwidth limiting.
> 

Hmmm, why? I mean why and when did that become a priority?

> One thing we need to look into before that is bootstrapping. Recently a lot 
> of 
> bootstrapping tests have been failing. :(
> > 

That's important for the release.

NextGen$

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