[tahoe-dev] sun announces celeste

[Drew Perttula]

So who's got a review of http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/celeste/ 
in terms I can understand? :)

 From skimming their pdf (!) installation guide, I see the following:
- written in java, of course
- user/password logins as parameters to GET queries (not http auth)
- some ACL thing with "namespaces" to group files. I didn't catch how 
namespaces relate to directories
- mixed up version of REST: plenty of methods appear as URL components 
as well as http verbs; deleting a file is a GET or HEAD request like 
http://{server}/delete/{path}?sessionId={id}. A HEAD request can delete 
a file?!
- they make a big deal about pluggable erasure coding algorithms. Not 
sure how many they actually support, nor how many a user would 
realistically want to think about



<soapbox>Their project blog planet thing emits RSS2.0 only. I recently 
learned that RSS still sucks because it's underspecified, and ATOM is 
well-specified and isn't any more complicated to use. So let's all 
please use ATOM for everything. In related news, I'm currently looking 
for a good atom server tool where stateless programs can send their 
entries and then clients can subscribe to feeds.</soapbox>