On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com> wrote:

I've been wading through the pull requests and bug lists to figure out
a roadmap for the next few months.

Here are the things on my priority list:

1. Where are we at with network health? What metrics should we be
using? Is there work to be done?
And meta-issue: can somebody volunteer to be the Bitcoin Network
Health Inspector to keep track of this?

I'm already on it, leveraging bitcoinj to do the work. I've added async capabilities to bitcoinj so that I can peer with everything that will let me with the goal of publishing quality peer lists via the DNS. Once I can build some metrics off the network its a matter of creating the visualizations.

I just started on this project last week. Happy to work with others on what a healty network looks like as well as best ways to communicate status.

also need advise on how to not be an impolite peer.

-rick