On Monday 11 October 2010 23:04:08 Ximin Luo wrote: > Hi, > > About a month ago it was proposed to have an IRC meeting, but this never > happened because various people were away, including me. I'd like to bring up > this issue again. > > For quite a while now, there've been topics which get started on the mailing > list but never talked through properly, because I guess people see Freenet as > low-priority. So I think it would be more productive if we actually dedicate a > specific time slot to talk these things through. > > I'd be happy with having this at any time, so I'm gonna randomly go say this > Thursday 7pm UTC (this is 8pm BST for us UK people). > > I'm going to suggest some agendas: > > code refactoring - the source is bloated. there used to be more contributors > to > freenet and there's a lot of cruft that have accumulated over the years, back > from when java had next to no libraries. IMO it's time to replace some of > them, > which would reduce future maintenance and entry barrier for new devs.
Some of this touches on other issues e.g. if we use the Java crypto code we get to use hardware acceleration, but we may be constrained on block size, which would mean lots of rewriting; and we can't add extra rounds as was recommended some time back due to weaknesses in AES-256... > > project work-time - we have one full-time coder working mainly on freenet core > development. other areas are neglected, such as documentation, UI, apps (talk, > search), etc. we need to address this, IMO urgently. We need more devs! We should discuss what the barriers are to volunteers. If we have funding for additional paid devs that would be really awesome too but I'm not aware of a queue forming for my job. :) > > wiki translations - we don't have any system for this. someone brought this up > in the last thread, so i've included it. please add some more details. And website issues in general. > > user interface - "look and feel" seems outdated, some parts are awkward to use > (downloads/uploads), arguably confusing terminology, not dynamic, etc. (this > is > not my area, someone else can add more.) Should we include this in 0.8? Should we fix the numerous small issues in the existing UI? Should we fix the existing GWT code, which is a significant gain in itself? New load management, i.e. what the blah has toad being doing this last month. Data persistence, general network performance, etc. (Closely related to previous) Freetalk status report. Installers - both Windows and non-Windows. Library current poor performance, next steps. Basic filesharing system - fairly easy if Library works. Worth it? Fundamental security issues: Darknet insecurity, opennet insecurity, what should we do about it when, what should we tell people, etc. Merge timing for zidel's low level rewrite. Database crypto / database auto-backups / database-cached-in-memory. The first issue was somewhat intractable and me and Ian have made a decision, but people might want to re-discuss it anyway. Release timing in general, and remaining key issues for 0.8.
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