Thank you for the reply. I'm not looking to be argumentative, and acknowledge Ian's request to take this to a different board, but must ask why the Freenet group decide to direct new users to the new alpha 0.7 network instead of the established 0.5 network before there was an open net? Especially since the 0.7 network is undergoing many changes with several critical bug fixes.
I also hope you understand that there is a large number of dedicated users on the 0.5 network that would like to try the new network, but won't if there is no open net. On Thursday 24 August 2006 17:26, Matthew Toseland wrote: > It has around 600 users judging from recent estimates, a fair amount of > content, and a lot of frost chatter. The stable branch was updated > fairly regularly; the purpose of having a separate stable network was so > we could test disruptive network changes. We may in future (after we are > out of 0.7 alpha) test changes on the testnet, but right now we develop > stuff in SVN, get people to test it from the testing-latest jar, and > then commit a version bump and deploy the new jar generally. > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 08:06:51PM -0700, an ominous cow herd wrote: > > Thank you for the reply. I was hoping that you might actually answer the > > other part of the message > > > > The past Freenet had two branches, the stable and unstable. The unstable > > branch was the one where active coding was performed. The stable branch > > did not get updated often if at all. > > > > My question, which has yet to be answered, is why did the Freenet project > > break with the previous release model and start directing new users to > > the unstable alpha 0.7 release? > > > > When I talk of stable and unstable, I'm referring to the the code. As we > > can see, the 0.7 network is still undergoing a lot of changes with > > several critical bug fixes. The 0.5 network didn't have many changes > > near the end. The 0.5 network has thousands of user and a lot of content. > > What I have heard of the 0.7 network is that it has only a couple > > hundred users and very little content. > > > > ps. There are many others like me who would like to try the 0.7 network, > > but will not if there is no open net. > > > > On Wednesday 23 August 2006 00:34, Ian Clarke wrote: > > > On 22 Aug 2006, at 20:37, an ominous cow herd wrote: > > > > You never experienced World War I, but I bet you know something > > > > about it. > > > > > > Yes, but I wouldn't lecture those who had actually experienced it, > > > and I think you will find Freenet 0.7 a somewhat more pleasant > > > experience than the first world war. > > > > > > Ian. > > > > > > > > > Ian Clarke: Co-Founder & Chief Scientist Revver, Inc. > > > phone: 323.871.2828 | personal blog - http://locut.us/blog > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Support mailing list > > Support@freenetproject.org > > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > > Unsubscribe at > > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Support mailing list Support@freenetproject.org http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
