Re: Determining whether gnunet is connected

[Tirifto]

On Tue, 01 Mar 2022 20:28:22 +0000
Fungilife can be eternal <fungilife@protonmail.com> wrote:

> Where does it say on the front page, or on the packages thrown out in
> Arch's AUR and elsewhere, "alpha project not fully functional"??
> "we know ..."  ..."Nobody is claiming otherwise"  you may know,
> someone in authority of the gnunet site should also tell the world.

For what it’s worth, it is very clearly mentioned in the ‘Install’ page
on the website, accessible either from the navigation bar’s
‘Documentation’ menu, or by scrolling down the home page and clicking
‘Get started’. I would assume that anyone stumbling upon the GNUnet
website and wondering how they can get started wouldn’t miss it, but I
may just as well be wrong. More prominent it could be, in any case.

The package descriptions could mention it, too, but here I want to note
that I don’t recall many packages doing this. From what I’ve seen, most
packages only state their goals in their description, without
elaborating on their stage of development. The version being ‘zero point
something’ should be a clear indicator that this is *not* in any way
finished and likely *not* fully functional. But it’s also true that
even some very functional software likes to stay on version zero for
too long, so perhaps this reasoning can’t be counted on. So I’m not
saying it’s a bad idea, just that it’s also not a no-brainer.