[mnet-devel] Mnet Weekly News Extra

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Weekly News 2003-02-23

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Mnet Hack Day

"Well this is another fine Hack Day(tm) you've gotten us into." A number
of hackers banded together today on #mnet to forge ahead into uncharted
territories and work on the new codebase. (Which is cleverly named _new.)
progress

Infoanarchy recently published a review of the upcoming v0.6.1 release of
Mnet. We are proud to say that the story was favorable, and we think it
will give us some good exposure. This is always a nice thing, but
especially important now since we need to grow our network to test its
scaling capabilities. If you would like to help there are many things you
can do, recruiting users, putting up high quality content, and running a
block store are just a few ways to garner some love from the Mnet
community.

Having wrapped up all the bugs in the sf.net tracker for v0.6.1 a release
is imminent. Expect an official announcement to come out within the next
24 hours. This means that most of Hack Day was spent working on mnet_new,
the much improved and cleaned up code base. Icepick made great strides in
getting the new tree to a stage where it was usable by others. The key
feature of the new codebase is that the network code has been refactored
into its own separate library.

Arno, Tschechow, and Zooko have put in a lot of time on searches, and it
has payed off. Searches are now faster than ever. Also a second Meta
tracker and a third Bootpage have been added, thus getting rid of a single
point of failure and adding some robustness to the network. Finally
Nejucomo's Ogg Vorbis code has been integrated, this means that all you
Ogg lovers no longer have to retype in the data about your music.

Icepick has also just released the first epydoc generated documentation
for mnetlib. This first page is a great starting point for figuring out
the layout of mnetlib. These help docs are generated from the comments in
the code, so they will be kept in a lockstep with the changing of the
code. We hope that this will make our codebase more accessible to those
who wish to add neat new features.
help wanted

The Mnet Hackers are always happy to have more help. The major project
currently underway is the v0.6.2 migration project which could use hackers
to change all the code to fit the new coding standards and to get all of
the Python extension modules to build and link on all platforms using the
new distutils build system. Also, we can always use more testing and bug
reporting.




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