> 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? > Yes :)
> 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 -- Jerome Flesch.
