Sounds good to me. So what does the software consist of?: - User interface to queue manager. - Index engine. (possibly abstracted as a library/daemon) - User interface to index engine.
Right? On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:17:40PM +0200, Jerome Flesch wrote: > > > How do you see indexes > > > relating to one another, and being uploaded by users? Some sort of web > > > of trust? Or some sort of broadcast forum? > > > > With a specific index format, I think we can do the both: > > > > Broadcast forum: We can write in hard in the code address of a first root > > index, containing child index addresses, themself containing index > > addresses, etc. Like this, we would obtain an public indexes tree. > > > > Web of trust: We can let users create their own root index, and so, their > > own indexes tree. > > > I discused with one of my friends about indexes management, and he suggested > me a better solution: > > One problem with my idea for the indexes is that someone can easily find all > indexes of the main tree, and makes new empty revisions of all indexes, > purging all the tree. > > His suggestion is, in some way, to do simply like Freenet web sites, or Frost > boards, a web of trust: Each user creates his own files index and only him > will be able to update it. Likewise, in his index, he will be able to add > links to other indexes. > But in addition to each files index, we can create an other index, this one, > publicly writable, where everyone making a link to this files index can put > the address of his own files index. Like this, owner of the first index will > be aware of this links creation, and links exchange should go fast. > After that, application will only have to grab link after link, and let user > create his favorite indexes lists from it (or from a given address). > > -- > Jerome Flesch. > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060510/9fb6b4c5/attachment.pgp>
