Re: rpietila Altcoin Observer

until released open-source, it is vaporware.

It has been open source the whole time. The ongoing work can be tracked on github.

sorry, i didn't realize it was in the master already.

We announced it as part of the Monero Missive 10 days ago: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.msg7847156#msg7847156. The Github branch was linked to in that announcement.

Same goes for proper daemonisation/service architecture of the daemon and rpcwallet: https://github.com/mikezackles/bitmonero/tree/daemonize_wip

Same goes for the QoS system to reduce bandwidth hammering: https://github.com/rfree2monero/bitmonero/tree/dev-rfree

All of those have been mentioned in the Missives and the repos have been linked. There's no point in hiding the code. The more eyes on it, the better.

The database is not released onto the main net after three weeks of dev work. At what point does it become vaporware?

The QoS system is only need to deal with the huge blockchain.

What enhancements does the proper daemonisation/service architecture provide?