Re: Gittorent .. avahi ?

From: Jonas Fonseca <jonas.fonseca@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 3, 2007, 18:25 UTC
Message-ID: <2c6b72b30704031125o4335aeefg88ccee163fa27142@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <9d916d5b0704011059g31394159kfdd5e01ba81915c2@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Srijak,

On 4/1/07, Srijak Rijal <srijak@gmail.com> wrote:

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>  I hope to be able to implement the gittorrent client/ tracker during
> GoogleSoc (if chosen :) ). I have been reading up on various git docs
> and listserv messages to figure out what features I want in it in
> addition to the basics. I have been concentrating especially on how to
> minimise tracker load.

While the tracker is a very interesting part of GitTorrent, because it has a lot of responsibility for 'advertising' new changes, I think the client, in itself, would be a hard and big enough project. And as Sam said the tracker can be reduced to a simple static file that is regularly updated by a cron job or something like that. On the other hand, having a tracker might ease the task of implementing a client. Hmm, chickens and eggs... ;)

I made a report about GitTorrent from which you might be able to get some info from or at least some overall motivations and considerations. However, it is for the much simpler and stupid 'initial' proposal, before Sam stepped in and made especially the core of the peer wire protocol more scalable. So 'caveat emptor' (this especially goes for the more Git related parts).

You can find it at:

  http://jonas.nitro.dk/tmp/foo/gittorrent.html/node38.html

and the whole report at

  http://jonas.nitro.dk/tmp/foo/gittorrent.pdf

I really hope your project gets approved.

-- 
Jonas Fonseca (fonseca@diku.dk)