GSoC-2008-Ideas

From PhexWiki

Main Ideas

These are intended to serve as inspiration and guide for proposals from students.

• UDP Integration
  For more lightweight networking, including Firewall to Firewall transfer.

• Net-Zip
  Private Networks made easy: Joining a private network should be as easy as opening a network-definition-file in Phex, and founding the network should be as easy as distributing a Net-Zip along with Phex.

• Metadata System
  Readout, display and integration of metadata into query replies.

• Contact Management
  For keeping track of preferred contacts and for friend-to-friend networking connecting only to people you know, including improved communication with contacts.

• Kademlia Support
  For searches by Hash (as orthogonal feature to searches by keyword).

• i2p in Mainline
  Anonymous p2p using Phex and i2p.

• Credence in Phex
  For decentral Spam detection: http://credence-p2p.org

Further Ideas

• Integration of a free file release service.
  • Subscription management for Metalink, PodCast and Magma.
• Non-blocking IO.

• GUI overhaul:
  • Switching look and feel, theme and icon pack without restart.
  • Support of virtual library directories.
  • Bandwidth schedule, adjust the bandwidth to use at specific hours.
  • Ability to run multimedia files inside Phex via user specifed external program.

• A more lighthweight GUI,

• UPnP support.

• Phex as Daemon with interfaces for controls (i.e. a webbased gui).

Some more sources

• Wishlist
• Roadmap
• Open Development Tasks