On Saturday 19 October 2002 13:54, Ian wrote: > > For PR purposes, we need to decide which day we will do the 0.5 release. NO!
We should not decide release deadlines based on PR concerns. We should do the release only after the code is stable. The only way to know the code is stable is to test it. I would suggest at a minimum, *after* the Windows installer is working perfectly we freeze CVS, bump the minimum build number to force all non-release candidate nodes off the network and test for at least one week. Two would be better. There two things that I want to get in before a freeze: 0) Cleaner handling of undecodable splitfiles in the fproxy SplitFile downloading ui. 1) Update the FEC code in freenet_ext.jar to use the onionnetworks 1.0.3 release which has full source for all support libraries. The changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 are small. The output should be bit-for-bit compatible so this shouldn't be a disruptive change. I should be done with these by the end of the weekend. Also I haven't gotten any recent feedback on fproxy fec support under windows. There was some weird stuff going on with InternalClient insertion the last time I looked at it (~=1.5 weeks ago). I saw that mt fixed the /0 bug. Does fec inserting and retrieving work on windows now? If things look good we could freeze at 0 PST Monday. I wouldn't even consider making announcements to press until after we have tested for at least a week. --gj > > Getting good PR coverage is essential, Hyping freenet is a bad idea. When it works well people with tell other people about it and the userbase will grow organically until journalists start to call you. > as it will lead to wide > deployment and more donations !!! We should not be manipulating press coverage to make money. > with which we may be able to extend > Matthew's employment if he is interested in that. Are we really short of money? If so just put a request on the freenetproject.org site asking for donations. I would be surprised if you didn't get whatever is nescessary. --gj ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
