On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 03:55:22PM -0700, Ximin Luo wrote: > IMO the main problem has, for the longest while, been developer time > and code quality. It is a bit chicken-and-egg. If the code quality > is poor (which it is at the moment) then developers are less incline > to work on it (like me). If there are few developers with time to > work, then code quality will not improve. > > One can think about cool research topics and new algorithms but > without the foundation it's impossible to implement these in > reality, no matter how good one's ideas are.
The problem is without visible progress we will lose both users and developers, and especially funding. And Freenet is fundamentally flawed in a great many ways; if we don't make progress on these, it won't have contributed much no matter how shiny clean the code is. However, I do see your point of view as well. We need to improve documentation/javadocs, unit test coverage, structures and so on. There has been some limited progress on getting rid of mega-classes recently, both in my work and chetan's, which is a start... So it's a tradeoff. We need to do both cleanup and innovation.
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