Tribler Dev. Meetings

Tribler dev. meetings are for raising issues related to tribler development and other tribler related stuff. Dev. meetings should last about one hour giving time to discuss things in a little detail. We will try to e-mail out dates/time/location at least one week before so people can add items to the agenda listed here.

Next Tribler Dev Meeting Fri. 10-07-09 @ 2pm in 9.130

Please add any items you want to discuss to the agenda and add any comments / issues below.

Agenda:

  • Present some initial work on 2-hop torrent smell distributed tracking (Raynor Vliegendhart)
  • Brief overview of vod / streaming plugin roadmap (Riccardo Petrocco)

Comments / issues:

  • Room 9.130 is booked from 2pm to 3:30pm

Notes of what happened:

  • Raynor made a presentation on the current idea behind 2-hop torrent smell, see attached presentation.
  • Questions revolved around how many and which peers should be maintained (via PEX) by nodes and passed
  • Currently a max of 25 peers will be maintained because this is maximum that it is reasonable to pass in a gossip message
  • Nazareno said that it might be good to order peers by up-time to get reliable nodes
  • Arno raised the issue of if we can be sure that the peers collected are actually serving content or just PEX'ing themselves
  • Riccardo reported back from the recent NY open video conference
  • He indicated he had made some good contacts there within Mozilla, GStreamer, and VLC communities (among others)
  • Both VLC and GStreamer projects are interested in tribler plug-in VoD, Streaming integration
  • Riccardo gave an outline roadmap for this: 1) Simple p2p engine for VoD; 2) Streaming live content + upload detection; 3) New distributed seeding incentives; 4) BitTorrent-2 / UDP

Tribler Dev Meeting 16-06-09 @ 2pm in 9.130

Please add any items you want to discuss to the agenda and add any comments / issues below.

Agenda:

  • Boxun to introduce group to the Thunder client
  • Johan to introduce group to the DC++ client

Comments / issues:

  • Room 9.130 is booked from 2pm to 4pm

Notes of what happened:

  • Boxun talked briefly about PPLive, PPStream and Thunder see attached presentation.
  • Large numbers of users are claimed but we are not sure how many users they actually have
  • Content ingestion is generally not possible by normal users
  • Each of these clients is proprietary and it appears there are centrally maintained servers for content and moderation
  • Hence these are better seen as "peer-assisted" centralised systems (like BBC iplayer using Akami)
  • PPLive now has a webplug in
  • Johan talked about DC++ indicating the way in which hubs can be easily set-up with strict kick-out criteria (like you must share say 100GB of stuff)
  • Hubs are advertised on various web pages
  • Is this a kind of group selection?
  • Could such mechanisms be implemented in a fully decentralised way in tribler?
  • Agreed next meeting for 2pm on 8th of July

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