Delcaration of Intent
<auto97841-revL73yDgGBWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> Sun, 10 Aug 2003 08:04:57 -0700
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.security.invisiblenet.iip.devel |
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'lo y'all I understand what you are both saying, but I think there's still a misunderstanding. The point of including a declaration of intent in a project overview document is not to promote or explain what the personal motivations of any particular developers building the system are. It is to give grounding for where the project is headed - to declare that the project will not stop short of providing anonymous, secure, and uncensorable communication to those who are under attack by the governments and corporations of the world. That individuals are under attack from those organizations is an undisputed fact (though some may say thats ok, because the individuals under attack are "bad" people). Even if one is in denial that such terrible things are going on in one's own community, don't we all acknowledge that they go on elsewhere - in Iran, China, the Philipines, or what have you? Anyway, in order to not hold up the 0.1 release debating this, I've revised the doc pulling the first page out and updating the project overview accordingly. We will need to have a declaration of intent - or project goals if you prefer - before the I2P 1.0alpha release in september. Bundling a dozen "why *I* work on I2P" documents with releases isn't appropriate - no one cares why I develop for I2P as long as my efforst move it towards the project's goals. So, here's the hopefully final doc. Please review fully (I know, getting a 3 page reading assignment on the weekend sucks ;), as I'd like to have the release out tomorrow. Gracias -jrandom
i2p_philosophy.pdf
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