From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jonas Fonseca" Subject: Re: Gittorent .. avahi ? Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 14:25:26 -0400 Message-ID: <2c6b72b30704031125o4335aeefg88ccee163fa27142@mail.gmail.com> References: <9d916d5b0704011059g31394159kfdd5e01ba81915c2@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Srijak Rijal" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 03 20:26:29 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HYni8-0000Nf-E8 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:26:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161095AbXDCSZ5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 14:25:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161093AbXDCSZ5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 14:25:57 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.227]:21947 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161095AbXDCSZ4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 14:25:56 -0400 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h31so1888485wxd for ; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:25:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rIj72SwntFcV6axLGiVSRBWeJXQ1LaGldTyuvwFmtiyz08Z/HyebMJMlRunB7rQKJ1wMkglAm8FEi1iwyLY6ezsvdO7T4Jud+oT45CcQLAys0dPnA+pyB1E2AOGFah5Abkk0oPVd748th8Xk+Htxdp0ckJb5bREwIoB2Bx+rixM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=G1b9URdxt9jRi3s+5tcNGy/lEywZ/ou3umalVjy/yclzbW37mmMO0dLmxNpiOXxg6dBuqvVPJELoz5g+oy98+1gcJ8fwb4kGVgkSKkOyf07HqVUgXE/BK7WR0HIbrmniMrzZ2D2n6+u6faKh/gyMboJUCnsmo5EeVhAONbzxn1c= Received: by 10.114.126.1 with SMTP id y1mr2388352wac.1175624733922; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:25:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.25.20 with HTTP; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 11:25:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9d916d5b0704011059g31394159kfdd5e01ba81915c2@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello Srijak, On 4/1/07, Srijak Rijal wrote: > 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)