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johnny-morrice / godless

Peer-to-peer lite database over IPFS
MIT License
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Is this project still alive? #15

Open plentylife opened 6 years ago

plentylife commented 6 years ago

Or is it dead?

johnny-morrice commented 6 years ago

@plentylife This project is on hold. In my view, it has been taken about as far as a "toy" project should be taken.

Godless does some things right, while some similar toys do it wrong (e.g. pervasive use of cryptographic signatures so peers don't have to be trusted so much). I've also been honest that it is a toy, or a study, or a thought about the future - I've seen some other systems make big claims, but when I install them on my computer I get a little disappointed. I hope I've not disappointed anyone by pushing it too far!

To take it further, it needs a serious time investment. I currently put that effort into my job, and I'm not keen on killing myself for a hobby :) Unless my circumstances change, I'm unlikely to pick it back up.

plentylife commented 6 years ago

Thank you :-)

On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 7:42 AM, John Morrice notifications@github.com wrote:

@plentylife https://github.com/plentylife This project is on hold. In my view, it has been taken about as far as a "toy" project should be taken.

Godless does some things right, while some similar toys do it wrong (e.g. pervasive use of cryptographic signatures so peers don't have to be trusted so much). I've also been honest that it is a toy, or a study, or a thought about the future - I've seen some other systems make big claims, but when I install them on my computer I get a little disappointed. I hope I've not disappointed anyone by pushing it too far!

To take it further, it needs a serious time investment. I currently put that effort into my dayjob, and I'm not keen on killing myself for a hobby :) Unless my circumstances change, I'm unlikely to pick it back up.

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0zAND1z commented 5 years ago

Hi @johnny-morrice , you have done a nice job with the project. Thank you.

@akshitababel & I are researching on the applications of CRDTs in a distributed environment such as the IPFS.

As much as it is great to have a separate client / CLI option to access godless , does it make sense to you, if the project can be enhanced as a package consumable by go apps looking to move the persistence layer from Redis to IPFS? Let us know. (We could not see a godoc for usage direction & hence the question)

Alternative suggestions are also welcome.