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Hi y'all, time for the weekly status notes
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* Index
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1) Net status
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2) SSU introductions / NAT hole punching
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3) Bounties
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4) Client app directions
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5) ???
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* 1) Net status
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We're still churning along with the 0.6.0.5 release on the net, and
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nearly everyone has upgraded, with many running one of the builds
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since then (CVS HEAD is 0.6.0.5-9 right now). Things are still
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working well on the whole, though there has been a substantial
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increase in network traffic from what I've observed, likely due to
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more i2p-bt or i2phex usage. Once of the irc servers had a bit of
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a bump last night, but the other held on fine and things seem to
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have recovered well. There have been substantial improvements in
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error handling and other features in the CVS builds however, so I
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expect we'll have a new release later this week.
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* 2) SSU introductions / NAT hole punching
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The latest builds in CVS include support for the long discussed SSU
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introductions [1], allowing us to perform decentralized NAT hole
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punching for users behind a NAT or firewall that they do not control.
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While it doesn't handle symmetric NAT, it does cover a majority of
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cases out there. Reports from the field are good, though only
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users with the latest builds can contact the NATted users - older
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builds need to wait for the user to contact them first. Because of
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this, we'll be pushing the code out into a release earlier than
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usual to reduce the amount of time that we have these restricted
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routes in place.
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[1]<a rel="nofollow" href="http://dev.i2p.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/i2p/router/doc/udp.html?rev=HEAD#introduction">http://dev.i2p.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/i2p/router/doc/udp.html?rev=HEAD#introduction</a>
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* 3) Bounties
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I was checking the i2p-cvs mailing list earlier and noticed a bunch
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of commits from Comwiz regarding what seems to be phase 3 of the
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unit test bounty [2]. Perhaps Comwiz can give us a status update on
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that stuff during the meeting tonight.
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[2]<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.i2p.net/bounty_unittests">http://www.i2p.net/bounty_unittests</a>
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As an aside, thanks to the suggestion of an anonymous person, I've
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updated the hall of fame [3] a bit, including the contribution dates,
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bundling multiple donations from a single person together, and
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converting to a single currency. Thanks again to everyone who has
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contributed, and if there is incorrect information posted or if
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something is missing, please get in touch and it will be updated.
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[3]<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.i2p.net/halloffame">http://www.i2p.net/halloffame</a>
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* 4) Client app directions
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One of the more recent adjustments in the current CVS builds is the
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removal of the old mode=guaranteed form of delivery. I hadn't
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realized anyone still used it (and its entirely unnecessary, since
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we've had the full streaming lib for a year now), but when I was
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digging into i2phex I noticed that flag set. With the current build
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(and all subsequent releases), i2phex will just use mode=best_effort,
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which will hopefully improve its performance.
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My point in bringing this up (beyond mentioning it for i2phex users)
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is to ask what y'all need on the client side of I2P, and whether some
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of my time should be allocated to helping meet some of them. Off the
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top of my head, I can see lots of work available in different aspects:
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= Syndie: simplified posting, automated synchronization, data
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import, app integration (with i2p-bt, susimail, i2phex, etc),
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threading support to allow forum-like behavior, and more.
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= eepproxy: improved throughput, pipelining support
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= i2phex: general maintenance (I haven't used it enough to know its
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pain points)
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= irc: improved resiliance, detect recurring irc server downtime and
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avoid down servers, filter CTCP actions locally instead of on the
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server, DCC proxy
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= Improved x64 support with jbigi, jcpuid, and the service wrapper
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= systray integration, and removing that dos box
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= Improved bandwidth controls for bursting
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= Improved congestion control for network and CPU overload, as well
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as recovery.
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= Expose more functionality and document the available features of
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the router console to third party apps
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= Client developer docs
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= I2P intro docs
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Plus, beyond all of that, there's the rest of the stuff on the
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roadmap [4] and todo list [5]. I know what we need technically, but
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I don't know what *you* need from a user perspective. Talk to me,
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whatcha want?
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[4]<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.i2p.net/roadmap">http://www.i2p.net/roadmap</a>
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[5]<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.i2p.net/todo">http://www.i2p.net/todo</a>
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* 5) ???
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There's some other stuff going on in the router core and app dev
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side beyond whats mentioned above, but not everything is ready for
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consumption at the moment. If anyone has anything they'd to bring
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up, swing on by the meeting tonight at 8p UTC in #i2p!
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=jr
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