On Thursday 03 February 2011 19:25:42 xor wrote: > Hi, > > first, for those who do not know what they are, a short explanation: > Freetalk aims to provide the functionality of FMS, while being a plugin to > the > Freenet node so it can be bundled & integrated into the web interface easily. > Web Of Trust provides the identity management features which are needed by > Freetalk - unlike as in FMS the identity management is separted from Freetalk > so the identities can be used with other applications as well. There are > already other applications which use WoT, for example Sone and FlogHelper. > > After quite some years of development, I finally managed to get Freetalk and > the Web Of Trust plugin to a state where they are stable enough to become > offical plugins which are listed on the plugins page. > > First, there shall be a final testing phase with release candidates. If they > have no severe bugs, they will become the final versions the next week. > > So please, help us with testing the RC1s. > Try to use them in any possible way - write many messages, assign trust > values > - just use all features which you can find. > Report anything which does not work. > > If you want to provide extended help with testing, please watch your > Freenet's > log files: > 1. Switch the Freenet web interface to advanced mode (the link for that is at > the > bottom) > 2. Go to Configuration => Logs > 3. Set "Minimum priority to log messages at" to "NONE". This will disable all > logging which is not explicitly configured in the following step > 4. Set "Detailed priority thresholds" to > "plugins.Freetalk:ERROR,plugins.WebOfTrust:ERROR". This will enable logging > of > errors just for Freetalk and WoT. > 5. Set "Log rotation interval" to a higher value, "24HOUR" for example > 6. Install Freetalk/WoT as described below. > 7. After they have been running for some time, go to your Freenet > installation > directory, there is a folder called "logs", in this folder you can check > "freenet-latest.log" for errors and report them. It will be rotated away > after > the configured rotation interval. Notice that the logs are very > likely to contain information which tells us which identities you use and > also > might even tell us the insert URIs of the identities! > 8. Further, Freetalk and WoT do intensive integrity tests after startup, so > it > might make sense to restart your node at some point and check for errors > after > Freetalk/WoT have started up, which you can tell by their menus being visible > on the web interface of your node > > You can send logs to FMS, to Freetalk or by mail to [email protected] > Email is preferred. > > Installation instructions: > You need to install both Freetalk and Web of Trust with the following > procedure: > 1. On the Freenet web interface, go to "Configuration" => "Plugins" > 2. In the "Add an Unofficial Plugin" enter the plugin URL and disable the > "Local > files only" checkbox. > 3. Click "Load". > 4. After Freetalk is loaded, it will fill the "Forums" menu of the web > interface, Web of Trust will give you a "Community" menu > > URLs: > http://downloads.freenetproject.org/alpha/plugins/WebOfTrust/WebOfTrust- > version-0.4-RC1.jar > > http://downloads.freenetproject.org/alpha/plugins/Freetalk/Freetalk- > version-0.1-RC1.jar > > Things you should know: > - There will be a lot of empty forums, it is not necessarily a bug if they > are > empty - Freetalk ships with a list of default boards which are created > automatically. > - These release candidates use a different identity namespace than the > previously released testing versions. You will not see any identities / > messages from them. You can import your identities at "Community" => "Restore > an identity from Freenet". At the old web of trust plugin, you can obtain the > URIs which you must enter there at "Community" => "Own identities" => "Edit" > - The final versions will reset the name space yet once again because the > release candidates to not provide auto-update and we do not want outdated > versions to pollute the final namespace. This is a minor loss though because > it > is not intended to have a testing phase longer than a week. > - After you post a message, it will treated like a message from someone else > in the downloading process. Therefore, it might take ~15-20 minutes until you > see your own messages. It is done this way to allow you to notice an error in > the uploading process if your own messages are not downloaded at all. > > > Thank you & greetings > xor > > > PS: > Please, do not be disappointed by a lack of features even though there were > "years of development". Notice two things: > - My goal for the first versions is absolute reliability, they shall not lose > any messages. Much time was invested in ensuring this by having lots of > online > integrity tests etc. > - I'm a volunteer and it took years because in total average I probably spent > less than an hour of work on them per day. > One caveat: Because of an XML bug, Freetalk and WoT require Java 1.6. This is not a problem for most users but if the node was installed a really long time ago, maybe on OS/X or Linux, it could be a problem...
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