#chihaya [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/pushrax/chihaya.png?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/pushrax/chihaya)

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:

- Requests are multiplexed over all available threads
- Low processing and memory footprint
- IPv6 support
- Generic storage interface that can be easily adapted to use any data store
- Scaling properties that directly correlate with the chosen data store's scaling properties
- Redis data storage driver


##installing

```sh
$ go install github.com/pushrax/chihaya
```

##configuring

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.


##implementing custom storage

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). You're 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.


##contributing

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!