chihaya is a high-performance [BitTorrent tracker](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_tracker) written in the Go programming language. It isn't quite ready for prime-time just yet, but these are the features that it targets:
Configuration is done in a JSON formatted file specified with the `-config` flag. One can start with [`example/config.json`](https://github.com/pushrax/chihaya/blob/master/example/config.json) as a base.
The [`storage`](http://godoc.org/github.com/pushrax/chihaya/storage) package works similar to the standard library's [`database/sql`](http://godoc.org/database/sql) package. To write a new storage backend, create a new Go package that has an implementation of both the [`Conn`](http://godoc.org/github.com/pushrax/chihaya/storage#Conn) and the [`Driver`](http://godoc.org/github.com/pushrax/chihaya/storage#Driver) interfaces. Within your package define an [`init()`](http://golang.org/ref/spec#Program_execution) function that calls [`storage.Register(driverName, &yourDriver{})`](http://godoc.org/github.com/pushrax/chihaya/storage#Register). Your driver **must** be thread-safe. After that, all you have to do is remember to add `import _ path/to/your/library` to the top of `main.go` and now config files will recognize your driver by name. If you're writing a driver for a popular data store, consider contributing it.
If you're interested in contributing, please contact us in **#chihaya on [freenode](http://freenode.net/)**([webchat](http://webchat.freenode.net?channels=chihaya)) or post to the issue tracker. Please don't offer massive pull requests with no prior communication attempts (unannounced small changes are fine), as it will most likely lead to confusion and time wasted for everyone. And remember: good gophers always use gofmt!
