On Thursday 03 February 2011 19:25:42 xor wrote:
> 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.
>
One caveat: Because of an XML bug, Freetalk and WoT require Java 1.6. This is
not a problem for most users but if the node was installed a really long time
ago, maybe on OS/X or Linux, it could be a problem...
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