Contributing to GNUnet

[Tanguy Le Carrour]

Dear GNUnet developers,

I have been interested in the GNUnet Project for some years now. First of all,
because it's a technically fascinating and ambitious project, but also because
it's a politically essential project to me.
I'd started to try it, but without concrete use cases my tests didn't yield 
much.

Recently I came across GNUnet again through Secushare, re:claimID and Taler.
I find these projects exciting and these are 3 very concrete use cases
I am interested in.

In order to be able to evaluate them, I had to install GNUnet on my computer.
Unfortunately, the latest version was not available on my distribution.
So I rolled up my sleeves to update the package! This is now done and
is waiting to be integrated into Guix [1][].

[1]: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=39673

In order to evaluate my package, I took the user manual and tried the different
scenarios.

With the help of Martin [2][], I was able to validate that re:claimID worked
correctly with Firefox, but unfortunately not with Icecat. The FS module
seems to work. I was able to find "Das Kapital", but the download was VERY slow
(6 b/s) so I didn't wait for it to complete. GNS seems to work. The proxy 
doesn't
work with Icecat, nor with Firefox (?!), but works with Chromium… but GNS 
doesn't
work well with virtual host, does it? I managed to compile the groupchat
application, but I'm not sure if it really works.

[2]: https://gitlab.com/reclaimid/webextension/issues/5

Now I'm trying to figure out how I could help the project? I could keep the
Guix package up to date. I had to disable some tests to make it work, so
I could open a bug report for that? I could package groupchat for Guix. It's
a small piece of software, but it would be the first Nim package in Guix, which
is by itself a challenge. One thing for sure, I'll try to use re:claimID
on a real project!

I'm looking forward to discuss all the possibilities with you guys!

Best regards

-- 
Tanguy