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Chihaya 
Chihaya is a high-performance BitTorrent tracker written in the Go programming language. It isn't quite ready for prime-time just yet, but these are the features it targets:
- Low resource consumption
- Fast request processing
- A generic storage interface that is easily adapted to use any data store
- Scaling properties that directly correlate with those of the chosen data store
- Correct IPv6 support
- Maximum compatibility with what exists of the BitTorrent spec
Installing
First, you'll need to install libzmq with your favourite package manager. Then,
$ go install github.com/pushrax/chihaya
Configuring
Configuration is done in a JSON formatted file specified with the -config
flag. An example configuration can be seen in the exampleConfig variable of
config/config_test.go.
Default storage drivers
Chihaya currently supports the following drivers out of the box:
Custom storage drivers
The storage package is heavily inspired by the standard library's
database/sql package. To write a new storage backend, create a new Go
package that has an implementation of the DS, Tx, and Driver
interfaces. Within that package, you must also define an init() that calls
storage.Register.
Please read the documentation and understand these interfaces as there are
assumptions made about thread-safety. After you've implemented a new driver,
all you have to do is remember to add import _ path/to/your/library to the
top of any file (preferably main.go) and the side effects from func init()
will globally register your driver so that 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 (webchat) or post to the issue tracker. Please don't offer massive pull requests with no prior communication attempts as it will most likely lead to confusion and time wasted for everyone. However, small unannounced fixes are always welcome.
And remember: good gophers always use gofmt!