Since itâs relevant: There are still 2.5k⬠in my account from SUMA which I want to send to Ian. That they arenât there yet is completely due to me being slow talking to my bank and then sending Ian a mail with the data I need from him to send the money.
Best wishes, Arne Am Donnerstag, 9. April 2015, 21:27:32 schrieb Steve Dougherty: > Google Summer of Code didn't work out for us, but maybe we can have a > Freenet Summer of Toad? It's not certain yet, but Matthew might be > interested in working 35-hour weeks over the summer for FPI. He says he > wants at least $6k for 8 weeks but preferably $10k for 12 weeks. Paying > this while maintaining current operations will require a fundraiser. Are > people interested in doing this? > > If we go through with it we'd put a fundraising bar on the website and > count subsequent donations toward it. It might be good to have a mark > both at $6k as the minimum and $10k as the entire summer. > > Last summer purge-db4o coming into review all at once was a formative > experience for the community. We've agreed that development must now be > put up for review and merged in much, much smaller pull requests along > the way. > > What would we want to direct this development time toward? My opinion is > that more code / features is not what Fred needs most right now. I'd > like to ask that Matthew document plugin APIs and work on packaging: > things like splitting freenet-ext, making a Debian / Ubuntu package, and > maybe even creating an official distro package repo in Freenet. This is > because for those utilities that already exist, Freenet is pretty > effective, but I have seen many developers give up when they see the > lack of documentation, and the lack of packages makes it harder to > install and harder to depend on. There are unofficial packages for Arch > and Gentoo, and freenet-ext being monolithic makes packaging Freenet harder. > > Documenting the API will also make it clear what is considered API, and > reviewing it can then suggest improvements. If documentation is > completed it could get as far as developing improvements to the plugin > API. It is mandatory that any changes be backwards-compatible. > > Thoughts? > > - Steve > -- Unpolitisch sein heiÃt politisch sein, ohne es zu merken. - Arne (http://draketo.de) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 299 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20150410/75fa6a9c/attachment.sig>
