Implementable right now (but not necessarily important), with caveats
(unavailable components that will limit what can be implemented right
away), in order in which they will likely be done:
-* TESTING
-* FS (DHT not available)
+* TESTING-TESTBED [Nate]
* SETUP
-* DV (distributed testing not available)
-* TBENCH (distributed testing not available)
-* TRACEKIT (distributed testing not available)
+* DV [Nate]
+* TBENCH
+* TRACEKIT
+* FRAGMENTATION [Ji Lu]
* HTTP transport
-* FRAGMENTATION
-* MySQL / Postgres plugins (datastore, datacache)
-* UPNP
+* MySQL / Postgres plugins (datastore, datacache) [Radhika]
+* UPNP [Milan]
+Urgent items (before announcing ng.gnunet.org):
+* topology
+ - needs testing
+* hostlist
+ - test fails (gnunet-service-core crashes -- sometimes; with memory corruption!)
+* CORE:
+ - soliciting traffic for clients that registered for it is not implemented
+ (in the service, client API supports GNUNET_MESSAGE_TYPE_CORE_SOLICIT_TRAFFIC
+ but never receives any such messages); how to avoid busy-waiting here
+ is a good question (solicit => nothing, when to solicit again???)
+* FS (basic anonymous FS only)
+ - implement FS service (P2P operations)
+ + how to send queries (soliciting is not there in core; do we
+ also want to do pushing sometimes?)
+ + need to bound queueing of replies for other peers
+ - test multi-peer search/download
+* new webpage
+ - run peer => have a 0.9.x hostlist
+ - improve basic documentation (configure, dependencies, what works, etc.)
+ - write minimal welcome/introduction to 0.9.x-development/webpage/status
+=> Deploy(able) development network
-PHASE #2: (Goal: recover basic file-sharing functionality)
-* TESTING (needed for DV, DHT, Topology)
- - implement library for local testing
- + modify configuration to allow controlling
- connections for non-local starts
- + CORE service does not start with valid peer ID (all zeross)
- -- testcase fails!
- + consider changing API for peer-group termination
- to call continuation when done
- + testbed creation with topology (needs working F2F topology) [Nate]
- + testbed with churn [Nate]
- - implement testcases for library
- + get test for basic peer start to work!
- + test basic peer connect
- + test group start
- + test basic peer re-configure [Nate]
- + test topology creation [Nate]
- + test churn generation [Nate]
-* TOPOLOGY:
- - implement testcases (needs TESTING)
-* HOSTLIST:
- - implement testcases
-* FS (anonymous FS only)
- - review FS API [Nils, Amatus, CG]
- - design network structs (CS)
- - implement FS library
- + URI API -- DONE (but do more testing)
- + getopt API -- DONE (but do more testing)
- + persistence mechanism (design done)
- + sharing API
- ~ file-information (needs testing)
- ~ directory (needs testing)
- ~ publish (work in progress...)
- ~ unindex & list indexed!!! (need publish to be done)
- ~ search (need publish to be done)
- ~ download (need publish/search to be done)
- ~ namespaces
- ~ collection
- - design network structs (P2P)
- - datastore request queueing mechanism
- - implement FS service (needs DHT)
- + download
- + search
- - implement testcases
- + URI API
+
+0.9.0pre0:
+* UTIL:
+ - load: need way to determine network load (up/down)
+ - trust: need *fast* way to check/update trust in peers
+ (async peerinfo would not be right)
+ - OS: existing waitpid call is not nice (not integratable with scheduler! fix this!)
+* STATISTICS:
+ - synchronous/asynchronous API (& implementation) is not nice
+ - does not seem to work with timeouts (especially if service is not running)
+* ARM:
+ - need to get rid of synchronous API for service starts (cause all kinds of problems)
+ [=> eliminate for need to tell ARM about service starts most of the time!]
+* Module features to implement:
+ - advanced FS API parts
+ + namespaces: fundamental namespace API
+ + search: SBlocks, KSBlocks, probes, notify FS-service of known results
+ + collection
+ + location URIs (publish, search, download)
+ + persistence support (publish, unindex, search, download)
+ + indexing: index-failure-cleanup
+ + download: management/bounding of parallel downloads (for recursive dl.)
+ + datastore reservation (publishing)
+ + gnunet-publish (URI args)
+ + gnunet-download (directory)
+ + gnunet-search (options, incl. namespace search)
+ + gnunet-download (many options)
+ + gnunet-directory (man page, options)
+ + gnunet-pseudonym (all of it)
+ + gnunet-service-fs (remove failing on-demand blocks, many other nitpicks/features/optimizations)
+ + datastore: do active migration support here?
+ - implement adv. FS testcases
+ getopt API
- + sharing API (needs TESTING)
- ~ file-information
- ~ insert
- ~ download
- ~ search
- ~ unindex
- ~ namespaces
- ~ collection
- + directory API
- - implement performance tests (needs TESTING)
+ + insert: sblocks, loc uris
+ + download: loc uris
+ + search: sblocks, skblocks, loc uris
+ + namespaces
+ + collection
+ - implement FS performance tests (needs TESTING)
+ insert
+ download
+ search
+ unindex
-* new webpage
- - install on proper server
- - activate as ng.gnunet.org
-=> Deploy(able) development network
-
-
-PHASE #3: (Goal: ready for pre-release) [completion-goal: end of 2009]
-* Module features to implement:
+ - non-anonymous FS service (needs DHT)
+ + basic DHT integration
+ + CS-DHT-functions (DHT-put of LOC)
+ + P2P-functions (DHT-get)
- setup (RC-pre0)
+ default generation
+ need to settle basic design; do we want to keep guile?
- testing (RC-pre0)
+ + modify configuration to allow controlling connections for non-local starts
+ + testbed creation with topology (needs working F2F topology) [Nate]
+ + testbed with churn [Nate]
+ implement library for distributed testing [Nate]
+ implement testcases for distributed testing [Nate]
+ + test basic peer re-configure [Nate]
+ + test topology creation [Nate]
+ + test churn generation [Nate]
+
+0.9.0pre1:
+* Module features to implement:
- tbench (RC-pre1)
+ good to have for DV evaluation!
- DV (RC-pre1)
+ implement DV transport plugin [Nate & CG]
+ implement testcases [Nate]
+ implement performance tests [Nate]
+* GUIs to implement:
+ - gtk (RC-pre1)
+ + how to integrate scheduler with GTK event loop!
+
+0.9.0pre2:
+* Module features to implement:
- tracekit (RC-pre2)
+ good to have for DV/DHT evaluation!
- DHT (RC-pre2)
+ implement testcases
+ implement performance tests
* GUIs to implement:
- - gtk (RC-pre1)
- + how to integrate scheduler with GTK event loop!
- fuse (RC-pre2)
- - qt (RC-pre3)
- + see discussions @ FISL about integration with event loop!
* Plugins to implement:
- UDP backend (RC-pre2)
+ Fragmentation library
+ actual plugin
- HTTP backend (RC-pre2)
-* Determine RC bugs and fix those!
-
-=> PRE-RELEASE
+0.9.0pre3:
+* GUIs to implement:
+ - qt (RC-pre3)
+ + see discussions @ FISL about integration with event loop!
+* Determine RC bugs and fix those!
-PHASE #4: [completion-goal: mid 2010]
+0.9.0:
* Documentation
- - Doxygen generation
- - lcov generation
- update man pages
- update webpage documentation
* new webpage:
- create good Drupal theme for GNUnet
- make a NICE download page and figure out how to
enable developers to publish TGZs nicely
- - port "contact" page; add impressum
+ - port "contact" page
- add content type for "todo" items?
- DNS activation
* Plugins to implement:
- vpn
* Determine RC bugs and fix those!
-=> 0.9.0 RELEASE
-
-
-
-Post 0.9.0 features:
-* SMTP transport backend
-* HTTPS transport backend
- - improved HTTPS support in MHD
- - actual plugin
+0.9.x:
+* Plugins to implement:
+ - SMTP transport backend
+ - HTTPS transport backend
+ + improved HTTPS support in MHD
+ + actual plugin
+* Remove KBlocks in gnunet-unindex (see discussion with Kenneth Almquist on gnunet-devs in 9/2009)
+* Allow checking of presence of search results and/or content via command-line tools
+ (add options to gnunet-search / gnunet-download to limit search to local peer)
+* STATISTICS:
+ - should use BIO instead of mmap