On Tuesday 28 July 2009 16:08:55 Ian Clarke wrote: > Matthew, > > Can you give me a status report, including: > > What is the ETA for 0.8?
I have been working on various closely related things related to 1) making Freenet more usable in hostile regimes, 2) preparing for Bloom filter sharing and 3) infrastructure. Mainly this involves changes to caching policy (essential for bloom filter sharing but also beneficial to security), optimisations to limit the damaging effects thereof (the new client cache and slashdot cache), and improvements to physical security (encrypting and optionally password protecting the client cache and the downloads database). Hopefully this work will be completed very soon and a new stable build will be released. This build finally solves The Register's attack after four years, maybe we should try to get some publicity around that, certainly we should post an update to the website. We can expect a small performance penalty for some files, although it may help reachability for others; Oskar is unwilling to simulate as he does not understand how to model requests accurately. In any case it is vital for Bloom filter sharing which will be a big performance gain. > > What is the status of FreeTalk? Owing to the above work, I have not been keeping up with my students and with p0s recently. I hope to catch up with them tomorrow. This was made worse by not getting any work done last week due to major computing issues. Sorry folks. > > What is the status of the website migration? Nothing has happened. Nothing will happen because it is pointless to move the website when we can't move the bug tracker, and the bug tracker will bring any low-end php host/VM to its knees. So we need to deal with the bug tracker. But it will take several days work (= approximately the cost to both FPI and Ian of emu for 1.5 months). Is this really a high priority? IMHO losing our existing bugs database will cost significant work in the medium to long term, hence the need to migrate data... > > It may be beneficial to share the status report with the mailing list, > so that everyone gets a sense of where things are. > > Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090728/c3802a32/attachment.pgp>
