Hi, first, for those who do not know what they are, a short explanation: Freetalk aims to provide the functionality of FMS, while being a plugin to the Freenet node so it can be bundled & integrated into the web interface easily. Web Of Trust provides the identity management features which are needed by Freetalk - unlike as in FMS the identity management is separted from Freetalk so the identities can be used with other applications as well. There are already other applications which use WoT, for example Sone and FlogHelper.
After quite some years of development, I finally managed to get Freetalk and the Web Of Trust plugin to a state where they are stable enough to become offical plugins which are listed on the plugins page. First, there shall be a final testing phase with release candidates. If they have no severe bugs, they will become the final versions the next week. So please, help us with testing the RC1s. Try to use them in any possible way - write many messages, assign trust values - just use all features which you can find. Report anything which does not work. If you want to provide extended help with testing, please watch your Freenet's log files: 1. Switch the Freenet web interface to advanced mode (the link for that is at the bottom) 2. Go to Configuration => Logs 3. Set "Minimum priority to log messages at" to "NONE". This will disable all logging which is not explicitly configured in the following step 4. Set "Detailed priority thresholds" to "plugins.Freetalk:ERROR,plugins.WebOfTrust:ERROR". This will enable logging of errors just for Freetalk and WoT. 5. Set "Log rotation interval" to a higher value, "24HOUR" for example 6. Install Freetalk/WoT as described below. 7. After they have been running for some time, go to your Freenet installation directory, there is a folder called "logs", in this folder you can check "freenet-latest.log" for errors and report them. It will be rotated away after the configured rotation interval. Notice that the logs are very likely to contain information which tells us which identities you use and also might even tell us the insert URIs of the identities! 8. Further, Freetalk and WoT do intensive integrity tests after startup, so it might make sense to restart your node at some point and check for errors after Freetalk/WoT have started up, which you can tell by their menus being visible on the web interface of your node You can send logs to FMS, to Freetalk or by mail to xor at freenetproject.org Email is preferred. Installation instructions: You need to install both Freetalk and Web of Trust with the following procedure: 1. On the Freenet web interface, go to "Configuration" => "Plugins" 2. In the "Add an Unofficial Plugin" enter the plugin URL and disable the "Local files only" checkbox. 3. Click "Load". 4. After Freetalk is loaded, it will fill the "Forums" menu of the web interface, Web of Trust will give you a "Community" menu URLs: http://downloads.freenetproject.org/alpha/plugins/WebOfTrust/WebOfTrust- version-0.4-RC1.jar http://downloads.freenetproject.org/alpha/plugins/Freetalk/Freetalk- version-0.1-RC1.jar Things you should know: - There will be a lot of empty forums, it is not necessarily a bug if they are empty - Freetalk ships with a list of default boards which are created automatically. - These release candidates use a different identity namespace than the previously released testing versions. You will not see any identities / messages from them. You can import your identities at "Community" => "Restore an identity from Freenet". At the old web of trust plugin, you can obtain the URIs which you must enter there at "Community" => "Own identities" => "Edit" - The final versions will reset the name space yet once again because the release candidates to not provide auto-update and we do not want outdated versions to pollute the final namespace. This is a minor loss though because it is not intended to have a testing phase longer than a week. - After you post a message, it will treated like a message from someone else in the downloading process. Therefore, it might take ~15-20 minutes until you see your own messages. It is done this way to allow you to notice an error in the uploading process if your own messages are not downloaded at all. Thank you & greetings xor PS: Please, do not be disappointed by a lack of features even though there were "years of development". Notice two things: - My goal for the first versions is absolute reliability, they shall not lose any messages. Much time was invested in ensuring this by having lots of online integrity tests etc. - I'm a volunteer and it took years because in total average I probably spent less than an hour of work on them per day. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20110203/096c406d/attachment.pgp>
