(24-08-2017, 11:53 AM)nas Wrote: Hi Guys, I'd like to try contributing to this project but two things:

Quote:Nice! :) Welcome to the project. Make sure to join #unix @ irc.nixers.net if you have questions or ask here.

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1) This would be my first time doing some "real" thing in C. (I use Java for work)

I started C by contributing to dvtm. I sent was awful patches, and martanne helped me to correct them (they were not merged into dvtm, though).

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2) How do we test it if it works?

We can setup our own tracker with existing clients: We need 2 things for a BitTorrent system: clients, a tracker (not really the server).

• The clients do all the heavy lifting: they pass the file directly with peer to peer (as you know already), with a "peer wire protocol" (section 6).
  
• The server to help the clients find each other (maintaining a peer list) and this go with HTTP GET requests.
  

The ideal is to test with many different trackers and clients, but if we have only one at first it is fine.

Open Tracker looks good to me, I will try to serve an instance at http://josuah.net:6969...