Am Dienstag, 3. November 2015, 12:00:06 schrieb Ian: > For those that appear to be craving a "bold new strategy", one thing I've > proposed in the past would be to put the main Freenet codebase in > "maintenance mode" … > Clearly, this would not be a direct successor to Freenet, it would not be > backwards compatible, and would be designed for a different (but perhaps > more current) use-case.
> Thoughts? That sounds like throwing away all we achieved for an uncertain gain. When going from 0.5 to 0.7 lots of documentation went stale, lots of tutorials did not work anymore, lots of useful sites disappeared. And people left. I agree with Florent that back then this was necessary, since Darknet is needed to provide any real measure of security. But it cost a lot. By throwing away the Freenet codebase, we would just repeat that, but without the gain. Also we would alienate all the volunteers who poured their time into Freenet by throwing away all the work they did. I agree with Dan that we built up lots of potential but did not make use of that. It’s time to reap the harvest: Using what we built. As a point in case, the Freenet Communications Primitives article[1] is one of the most accessed on my website. There clearly is interest in what we provide *right now*. We just need to make it easier to use. (and that’s lots of work, but it would also be lots of work for Tahrir, as you experienced with the three GSoC projects spent on it which still did not yield a working system) [1]: http://draketo.de/light/english/freenet/communication-primitives-1-files-and-sites Best wishes, Arne
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