At 08.33 11/11/01 -0800, you wrote: >So a number of people have requested a "state of Freenet" address, so >here we go:
First, I ask all core developer to trust me that I a lot of people that work on Freenet or use it thanks them a lot and have the highest consideration of their work. Bu I need to describe the Freenet version shift from a different point of view to explain this post. Due to the fact that Freenet *WORKS* till the 0.3.9.x, despite the fact that was clearly stated that was alpha (or beta ? ) code, a lot of people is using it; this is, in my opinion the bigger reward that a software developer can have. This explain also the big media coverage that Freenet had from the beginning, and had also the positive side-effect to develop a non trivial user base. Trust me, there are at least a couple of privacy initiative that are now on Freenet, that badly need to be able to store and retrieve content on Freenet. I was very unhappy, but I was unable to join the community meeting to illustrate one of them (due to economic details 8| ) that will go public, or at least will try to, in few days. It is not important if it use the 0.3 or 0.4; splitfile FCE is fantastic, but the most basic feature are enought. I really see no need to rush people to stop their 0.3 nodes and install 0.4. Yes, I know that you never said people to stop 0.3, but this will be the result if the Project doesn't care to have a workable 0.3 Freenet in place until 0.4 has the same robustness, and if omit to clearly state this. Trust me, I have no scientific proof, but I am a direct and accurate witness that, at least from Europe and during the last 3 weeks, Freenet 0.4 was crap. I stress this point; is crap from the point of view of the ability to *USE* it for the most basic features. OK, if you have not yet hit CANCEL or REPLY at this point (I hope), go ahead. All I ask is to stress the usefulness to manage the shift from 0.3 to 0.4 running both nodes on all server that have enought resources, and giving to this need visibility among users, developers and node administrators. This, maybe with some form of publicity of a list of tunnelled gateways, both for 0.3 and 0.4 (as I suggest in a previous post) will be enought. I personally manage a couple of node that have both version on the same computer; is a trivial task, if the resource used are not a problem, and as far as I know, normally they aren't. >So, in conclusion, things are going very well, if a bit quiet right now. >There are just one or two sticking points which should be resolved any >time now, and despite these the network *is* working. And I'm very happy to hear this but ,please, do whatever possible to mantain 0.3 live until 0.5 can scream. Many thanks. Marco "Quando uso una parola - disse Humpty Dumpty con tono abbastanza sprezzante - essa significa proprio cio' che io scelgo di dire, ne' piu' ne' meno." "Il problema e' - disse Alice - se puoi dare alle parole significati tanto differenti." "Il problema e' - disse Humpty Dumpty - chi e' il padrone. E' tutto qui." * Mac (Marco A. Calamari) marcoc at dada.it www.marcoc.it * * PGP RSA: ED84 3839 6C4D 3FFE 389F 209E 3128 5698 * * DSS/DH: 8F3E 5BAE 906F B416 9242 1C10 8661 24A9 BFCE 822B * * PGP keys: request keyserver http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371 * _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
