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Alo Sarv
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Monday, August 21, 2006

Status update

I was putting together my CV the other day, and noticed an interesting pattern. Over the last 4-5 years, I have done database programming for companies for 2-3 month periods, and then 6-12-month periods of OSS/P2P development; and after that again couple months of database development.

This pattern comes from obvious reasons - OSS/P2P development doesn't pay bills, so after a while the finacies simply run out and I'm forced to do database development once again. Hydranode project was a notable exception to this pattern, with development running for whole 20 months before I had to resort to database development this February, and again this June. This is all thanks to everyone who has donated or funded the Hydranode development over the last two years (no names due to their requests). So thank you.

What's currently going on in the database project I'm currently developing for a company is that they keep changing the spec of the system, which actually hit me back two weeks before I realized the issue and told them I won't be doing any coding at all until they finalize the spec (I assumed the initial spec they sent was also final). Anyway, current timeline suggests that I'll be stuck with this database project until mid/end of September; naturally the price went up due to the delays, and will go further up if it gets further delayed, so it's all good (actually feels rather good to be properly financed for a change :)).

Anyway, the plans on new Hydranode site are still up and open, but since I recruited Arlekin (the resident Hydranode designer) also to the database project as designer, both of our schedules are filled with that project, so the Hydranode website design/implementation isn't moving forward at all in the current state.

Anyway, we'll see what the future brings; to be completely honest I have another potential client already waiting for another database system (scheduled for October/November), but I haven't said anything concrete to them yet, so it's currently open. Whether or not I take that other project depends on many factors (some not up to me).

If you have 1-2 hour development time feature requests for Hydranode, you could post them as comments here, and I could try to fit them into my busy schedule. Only important, and small requests please - anything taking longer than few hours is unfortunately more than I can currently accept due to my filled schedule, sorry.

Madcat.

posted by Madcat # 7:51 PM

Comments:

Well, I'd love to have HTTP downloads working again. Its Wubbla's module and thus not written by you (and would take time to understand, let alone debug) but it'd be nice to have it working again ;-).

Is anyone else interested in getting the HTTP module working?

# posted by Anonymous : 9:30 PM

>Is anyone else interested in getting the HTTP module working?
yes, me.
Maybe it's time for a bounty? :)

# posted by Anonymous : 9:55 PM

Yes, the first bounty was sucessful. What about other?

# posted by Anonymous : 10:07 PM

I would also be interested in http download and ftp download and upload as well!
I'd like to have one programm doing all my up and downloading works, so that would be really great.
If in the distant future there will be priorities for the modules, I'm sure this will make a lot things easier for me!

But I think this will all take too much time and I can't remmeber anything short to implement... Well a quick user authorization perhaps. For the moment just a plain password would be enough, I just don't want my hnsh port be open to the world... And your doing database dev anyway, and account system is not that much is it? ;-)

But as I always say, do as much as you want and as you can. Great to hear again from you and thanks for all your effort.

# posted by Mathias : 9:53 PM

What I can think of for 1-2 hour development time feature request is ed2k source limit (both global and per file)

# posted by Enig123 : 10:17 AM

HN should support all these BT features, these are the essentials:

http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-client-comparison/

# posted by Anonymous : 5:56 AM

Madcat: it's sad, but me and other people are start to believing that your compject is dying :(

# posted by Anonymous : 10:32 PM

The release early and often topic is dead. I think this project will hardly survive without a lot of money. After that much work done, I cannot believe this will stop here. If the project is not finished, Madcat, was a waste of time.

# posted by Anonymous : 11:51 AM

I hope this project will continue, I was already coding a web gui already.. (not quite worth an alpha release)

# posted by Anonymous : 12:30 PM