Weekly developer meeting summary, April 3rd

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Here's an AI-generated, human edited summary of our weekly developer meeting for Freenet, held on April 3, 2024.

Participants:

• Ian Clarke
• Ignacio Duart

Discussion Summary:

1. Ignacio's Progress Update:

   • Continued work on simulating packet drops in a separate branch, encountering issues with connection robustness between peers but managed to identify and address the problem.
   • Identified a new issue with streaming messages during packet drops, which is the current focus.

2. Transport Layer and Operations:

   • Discussed the transport layer's current status and another branch focusing on protocol integration with transport.
   • Ignacio and Hector collaborated on debugging and fixing issues, making significant progress toward operational readiness.

3. Connection Establishment and Routing:

   • Detailed explanation of the connection operation process, including handling public keys, IP addresses, and port information for peer connections.
   • Addressed the handling of gateway-specific behavior and potential modifications to improve connection establishment efficiency.

4. Peer Location Strategy:

   • Discussed deriving peer locations from their public IP addresses to enhance security and reduce predictability for attackers.

5. Joining Network Mechanism:

   • Explored the process for new peers to join the network, involving multiple steps and peer communication to establish connections.
   • Discussed potential optimizations to reduce the complexity and improve the speed of the joining process.

6. Freenet Portal:

   • Ian is working on a simple "portal" for Freenet using Dioxus, this will be the first contract users see when they start Freenet. Initially it will just be a manually curated list of links, but eventually it will be a search engine, similar to https://google.com/ homepage.

7. Next Steps:

   • The goal is to have the network operational and performing useful tasks by the end of April.

8. Closing:

   • The meeting concluded with a positive outlook on the progress and plans to continue testing and debugging in the upcoming weeks.