Hey Vmon, freenet, Glad someone is interested in this. I put in a lot of effort last year for my project, but the project had so many dimensions that although a major chunk of it was completed, I have not been able to merge it. In my opinion this is a really important project for freenet.
I had discussed with toad and we were definitely interested in letting another student take up and make further progress in transport plugins. I hope that is still the case :) Presently I am very busy (I am working now and am no longer a student) and have been not hanging out at IRC (since the last month). But I am definitely interested in mentoring if freenet is okay with it. I have also been trying to save up on some holidays so that I can get a week off to merge the code I have completed (tons of it actually!). I will try to come on IRC this week (mostly the weekend) and discuss this. I think there would have to a prerequisite task that needs to be completed for this project? Also the accepted organisations have not yet been announced? Anyway looking forward to this. Regards Chetan PS - Sorry about the sudden absence from IRC :) On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:32 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Freenet, > > I was wondering if there is till appetite for more gsoc ideas. I'm a > student and I did a gsoc last year with Tor on Stegotorus which is a > pluggable transport (you call it transport plugin here) which support > chopping in small packets and different steg module including http (all > what was desired on the Freenet transport plugins page): > > https://github.com/zackw/stegotorus > > I was thinking of doing another GSoC this year with Freenet mainly to > get my hands wet and delve into the code. I still my "on-demand > mirroring" idea but as it is quite unpopular here, I thought I can work > on the transport issues and specifically on TCP. Because I think if a > country like Iran decides to block freenet, I think they just go flat > and block UDP (they do that with https for fighting tor for short period > of time). Also not of so much of surprise Stegotorus is working with TCP > sockets. > > I am aware here, we have mentor shortage crisis, but you can confirm with my > mentor last year (zackw) that I worked quite independently (he wasn't > available on irc and preferred email only communication and sometimes > was answering my emails with two weeks delay). I thought Chetan who is > already working on the transports can assume the mentorship possibly. > > Please let me if this arrangement is plausible and worthy of pursuing a > proposal or you think it is rejection on arrival situation. > > Cheers, > Vmon > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [email protected] > https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
