On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Matteo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I'm intrested in the project, and I'm a C programmer.
> Now I'm reading for studing purpose the documentation about ANDNA and QSPN
> because I've to do a short, self-explanatory, lesson to my college
> colleagues, so if you want I can translate and review the docs looking for
> errors or else.

Hi, I've got a few suggestions that will improve the project. The first thing we
(I'm not a C programmer myself but i can help you with testing, i have quite a
few routers and radio cards). The current Netsukuku C implementation doesn't
work as it should, and it's a bit out of date since it doesn't compile
on kernels
2.6. My suggestion is that we should make at least another C release while
the python codebase stabilizes. Me and other people were working on syncing
Netsukuku with the current OpenWRT kamikaze release and we have made
some advances. If we squash all the bugs then we will increase the userbase
and more people will get willing to work on documentation, site, translations,
etc.

> The interest in Netsukuku is high but people with enough knowlege in
> networking and C is rare.

Yes, and this might sound as a call for all the people who were always
present on the ML to start helping on the project for real. I know that many
of us are busy with real life issues, but this might be the time to
start devoting
to update the status of Netsukuku. We need a team of people who are willing
to maintain a wiki, organize the trac and handle bug reports, writers, etc. The
developers can't handle all the things we need to lift Netsukuku up to date.

> I suggest you to make a little (not so little) docs about coding netsukuku,
> maybe could be useful for young programmers that would join the project.
> Another point is: There is some howto on making a Netsukuku network from a
> pc +  wifi antenna? (I can't find it, bt I've no search the net well...)

There is some on the Netsukuku website, and the guys at Meganetwork[1] and
Ninux[2] as well CogitoWireless[3] have made some testing and documentation
about Netsukuku. Again, we must work on consolidating all the HOWTOs and
configuration issues in the Netsukuku website.

I know that the devs would say that code is what matters now, and it's
perfectly fine, but since there are people who are willing to take up tasks
that will help the project then it might be time to assign new tasks and
get organized?

[1] http://www.meganetwork.org/
[2] http://wiki.ninux.org/
[3] http://wiki.cogitowireless.net
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