[tahoe-dev] v1.5.0 -- now with less apt-get! Re: v1.5.0 is feature-complete!

[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn]

Folks:

On 2009-07-20 I thought that Tahoe-LAFS v1.5.0 was ready to roll [1],  
but then Brian added a ticket into the v1.5.0 Milestone about being  
able to apt-get the pycryptopp and zfec dependencies and any other  
dependencies (ticket #769).  Then, while we were working on that, I  
realized that nobody had actually manually tested the install.html  
process on Windows in a while, and I put out a call for volunteers,  
and several people stepped up, and sure enough there were several  
issues with installing Windows, which we have now mostly fixed and/or  
documented on the mailing list and the trac ticket, but not yet as a  
user-facing doc on the wiki (ticket #773).

It just now turned out that Brian isn't going to have time to fix the  
allmydata.org-hosted apt repositories until next Tuesday or Wednesday  
(see his comment on ticket #769).  I don't think that I can wait that  
long to announce Tahoe-LAFS v1.5.0!  Let's announce its existence,  
and people who want to try it can follow the install.html process  
[2], and then we can continue to improve the issues in these tickets  
(neither of which actually require any changes to the Tahoe-LAFS  
source code itself).

If this is not horribly objectionable to anyone, then I'll plan to  
finish the relnotes.txt (i.e. the "press release") and send it out  
far and wide this coming Saturday, the 1st of August.  I'll also  
update http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/DownloadDebianPackages to  
explain that the current release can't be apt-get installed.  In the  
meantime, if anybody else knows how to build an apt repository  
(possibly by using Ubuntu PPAs?), please let us know -- our buildbots  
are providing all the .deb packages that we need (I think) -- we just  
need an apt repository to serve them.

Regards,

Zooko

[1] http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-July/002347.html #  
see also the message quoted below
[2] http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/install.html

tickets mentioned in this message:
http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/769 # debian 'sid' package  
fails to run: pycryptopp-0.5.15 not available in debian form
http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/773 # organize the  
documentation for installation on Windows

On Monday,2009-07-20, at 8:17 , Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:

> Thanks to Kevan Carstensen for implementing and Brian Warner for  
> reviewing, the last issue, ticket #705, has been resolved.
>
> There are no more open tickets in the v1.5.0 Milestone, and I plan  
> to defer any patches which change the code until after the 1.5  
> release.  Any further patches will just be to docs (e.g. the  
> relnotes.txt file).
>
> So, test it out!  Upgrade your grids to the current trunk and  
> report any anomalies!  I'll write up Release Notes and do the whole  
> how_to_make_a_tahoe_release process [1] as my day-job schedule  
> permits, so probably some morning this week before my children wake  
> up and need breakfast and help with their chores.  :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Zooko
>
> [1] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/docs/ 
> how_to_make_a_tahoe_release.txt
>
> tickets mentioned in this e-mail:
>
> http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/705 # "tahoe mv" unlinks the  
> target even when it is a directory