Re: Attacking the documentation monster

2022-03-01 Thread Maxime Devos
William Liquorice schreef op di 01-03-2022 om 19:51 [+]: > Hello, > > A year or two ago, I tried to wrap my head around GNUnet so that I could > try to make parallel implementations of small bits in Rust, but found > its documentation to be utterly impenetrable. Not even from a technical >

Re: Attacking the documentation monster

2022-03-01 Thread Christian Grothoff
Spam killed this. We already constantly have to delete 'bug reports' from the Web that were submitted as link spam. A wiki will drain resources to keep the spammers out, and at the same time experience says the contributions will be low quality (it has been tried). If someone really is capable and

Re: Attacking the documentation monster

2022-03-01 Thread madmurphy
I don't know if this will be a popular proposal, but I really believe that setting up a self-hosted Wiki could be a very good choice. No complicate git clone, no complaints, just read/edit what you need, and distributed responsibilities about its design and direction. My two cents On Tue, Mar 1,

Re: Attacking the documentation monster

2022-03-01 Thread Christian Grothoff
On 3/1/22 8:51 PM, William Liquorice wrote: > Hello, > > A year or two ago, I tried to wrap my head around GNUnet so that I could > try to make parallel implementations of small bits in Rust, but found > its documentation to be utterly impenetrable. Not even from a technical > standpoint, the mass

Attacking the documentation monster

2022-03-01 Thread William Liquorice
Hello, A year or two ago, I tried to wrap my head around GNUnet so that I could try to make parallel implementations of small bits in Rust, but found its documentation to be utterly impenetrable. Not even from a technical standpoint, the massive reference manual / "handbook" is quite overwhel

Transport reliability

2022-03-01 Thread Bob Ham
Hi there, On the #gnunet IRC channel, there's been some discussion about the usefulness of gnunet. It's been noted that (1) gnunet is essentially unusable because transport is unreliable, (2) it's not known what causes this unreliability, and (3) transport-ng is an effort to rewrite transport, e