On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Bob Ham <r...@settrans.net> wrote: > > > I'm not claiming that Linux won just because they spent more time writing > > code than documentation > > What are you claiming then? >
That devoting resources to documenting Freenet's protocol is a solution to a non-problem given the current status of the project. > > there are many software engineers that > > died in the decades they waited for microkernels to become useful. > > How many have died in the 1.5 decades since Freenet began? > Freenet has been usable, and in-use by non-software developers virtually since the beginning of the project. Hurd remains an experiment 25 years later. > Do you see a long line of software developers just waiting to reimplement > > Freenet, if only they had comprehensive documentation? You're dreaming. > > We barely have the resources to maintain and advance one implementation > of > > Freenet. > > Have you considered that the reason you have trouble attracting > developers is because what you're doing is not attractive to them? > Compare the HURD wiki and the recent expensive revamp of the Freenet > website. The HURD wiki is useful. The Freenet website is shiny. When > there are only shiny things and no useful things, hackers stay away. If you don't find the goals of the project attractive, why are you here? Actually, I think many more people are interested in anonymity systems like Freenet today than back when the project began, so no, I don't think that's why we're having trouble attracting developers. Ian. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
