On Saturday 30 October 2010 00:09:25 Samu Voutilainen wrote: > On Friday 29 October 2010 21:02:17 Matthew Toseland wrote: > > We will need to eventually either adopt Freemail as a proper supported > > official plugin, merge the pending merge requests, and fix it so it > > actually works, or decide to drop it. > > > > Any opinions? On whether we should support it? On whether we should drop it? > > Do you have enough resources to maintain it?
I don't know. Basic maintenance of functionality in the face of node changes is not a big deal. Nor is merging small third party patches. Debugging it - it's never worked well for me - could be a larger amount of work. Especially if there are architectural issues to deal with. Integrating it with WoT would be even more work (especially if we want to make it easy to go from a message to its author to a private reply). To do it properly we would want it to reuse a big chunk of Freetalk for private messaging, so it would largely be a new extension to Freetalk, although probably reusing some code for 1) private channels (absolutely vital imho, Alice:Bob:Time data is precisely what we want to be protecting) and 2) SMTP/IMAP. > Or will it be (very) stable after those merges? If yes, I'd say support it. I don't know. > > I fear there isn?t enough community to upkeep this kind of thingy, I think > Freenet would need this kind of messaging system, too. Yes, IMHO Freemail is strategically important. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20101030/7072af98/attachment.pgp>
