Brad Fitzpatrick (brad) wrote,
Brad Fitzpatrick
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hacking status

I wrote a script to autogenerate this post, which I now plan to post somewhat regularly. It mostly helps me sort out my thoughts/priorities, but I'm sure providing more visibility into my status publicly can't hurt either. Consider any of these posts open invitations to bug me about the status of any project, listed or not, and I'll reply and update my notes.

djabberd [svn]
Hacking level: High Needs release: High
Active development. Need to get incremental connection memory usage down a bit, finish clustering, find some memory leaks, and do more performance testing. And need to do it all pretty soon.

Todo:

  • finish clustering
  • notable memory leaks
  • get incremental connection memory usage down
mogilefs [svn]
Hacking level: High Needs release: Low
Major refactoring and surge of new development in Jun 2006 for speed/robustness/readability. No protocol level changes. Works with any DAV server for storage nodes now too.
perlbal [svn]
Hacking level: Med Needs release: No
No active development. Mature maintenance mode, only adding new features as needed.

Todo:

  • parallel gzip
  • concatenation plugin for mischa/hover-over/IM thing
  • monitor more data structures to find glacially slow memory leak
memcached [svn]
Hacking level: Low Needs release: High
Facebook did a bunch of great work on memcached that's currently living in the 'facebook' branch. All of the parallel changes to memcached are in trunk, and trunk has been merged into the facebook branch. There should probably be two releases: 1.1.13 off trunk for the end of the old line, and 1.2.0-beta off the facebook branch for the more brave to shake out any bugs that might've arisen from my merging of the code. Then tag both and facebook should merge into trunk.

Todo:

  • autoconf/automake warnings or something in 1.1.13-rc1.tar.gz (help!)
  • better tests, perhaps including the perl tests w/ the server, and expanding
brackup [svn]
Hacking level: None Needs release: Low
Never started using it myself. It has a great test suite that includes backing up and restoring, both encrypted and not, but I never implemented the hooks for restoring in the Amazon plugin. I feel guilty about not using it, finishing any usage quirks I find, and releasing it. I'd love somebody to take this over for me if you're excited about it.

Todo:

  • start using
  • amazon s3 restore support
gearman [svn]
Hacking level: None Needs release: No
Using it in production, but lacks a website/docs/etc.

Todo:

  • website/docs
openid [svn]
Hacking level: None Needs release: No
David Recordon at Versign, the JanRain crew, and other members of the identity community are largely steering this boat now.
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