On Thursday 30 October 2008 18:53, Florent Daigni?re wrote: > * Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2008-10-30 12:48:19]: > > > I'm CCing this to devl, hope you don't mind. > > > > On Thursday 30 October 2008 05:13, you wrote: > > > Bank balance: $4,820.11 > > > > > > Paypal: $1,250.11 > > > > That's another 2.5 months at current exchange rates ... less if the UK economy > > rises / US economy falls. We should reinstate the paypal counter (including > > the bank balance) before begging for money. > > > > > > We need to start thinking about raising more $$$. I can try Google > > > again, but who knows whether they'll be willing to contribute :-/ We > > > may need to rely on existing users, and the shitty economy won't help. > > > > Tor had funding from all over the place - EFF, DARPA, ... :| I guess we're > > considerably more controversial, and more conceptually complex (everyone > > wants anonymous web browsing) ... I doubt Google would give us any more, but > > do what you have to. It probably doesn't help that by traditional measures > > our anonymity is relatively weak, but then only those who watch the > > literature will know this ... :| (IMHO in practice it's not *that* bad, > > especially on darknet, but there is more work to do). > > > > > > Any chance we can do a significant release in the near future? > > > > 0.8alpha1 would certainly be feasible within the period ... I don't think we > > have time to stabilise for a full 0.8.0, but I could be wrong. Thoughts? > > > > 0.8.0-alpha1: > > - The db4o branch merge (any week now) > > - The salted hash store (we need to turn this on for new nodes) > > I think we should do it. > @sdiz: are you still opposing for it to be done? > > > - Hopefully a first draft of the FMS plugin, p0s is doing great work on it (we > > need a better name for it since it since won't be compatible with the C++ > > FMS) > > - FOAF routing and no-swap-on-opennet : likely improve overall performance and > > data persistence significantly, although hard to measure (anyone listening, > > has freenet improved performance in the last few months??) > > We need some theoretical input here: do we want hybrid nodes to take > part to swapping or not? Making the change is trivial enough to be > doable before the release. > > > - Nextgens' recent work on compression should significantly improve > > performance for freesite browsing once they have been updated by roughly > > cutting container sizes in half. (.zip -> .tar.lzma) > > It's not quite ready yet... but will be in a few days time. > The thing is: we need content to be re-inserted for the performance to be > improved... that takes time and doesn't depend on us ;) > > > - Better bandwidth limiting. > > Hmmm, why? I mean why and when did that become a priority?
It's already been implemented, as has the rest, except for the db4o branch. > > > One thing we need to look into before that is bootstrapping. Recently a lot of > > bootstrapping tests have been failing. :( > > That's important for the release. > > NextGen$ > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 827 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20081030/0973a604/attachment.pgp>
