[tahoe-dev] planning Tahoe-LAFS v1.8.2

[Zooko O'Whielacronx]

Folks:

After we released Tahoe-LAFS v1.8.1 on Nov. 28, the Twisted project
released Twisted 10.2 on Nov. 29, and there is an incompatibility
(since we were relying on internal details of Twisted that we
shouldn't have been) so that you can't use any current version of
Tahoe-LAFS with Twisted 10.2.

Once we've fixed #1286 then this will be resolved and you'll be able
to use the trunk of Tahoe-LAFS with Twisted 10.2.

We've also started reviewing and committing a backlog of tickets, and
improving documentation, the WUI layout, removing dead code from the
source tree, and we fixed up our Debian Lenny buildslaves to produce
.deb's automatically. (See below for a list of tickets.)

Perhaps once we've finished a few more of these outstanding
review-needed tickets and #1286, we should release Tahoe-LAFS v1.8.2.
I'm particularly interested in #585 (make it work with bbfreeze). That
would, I think, let us build a single "tahoe.exe" file which people
could download and execute on Windows to have a running local
Tahoe-LAFS node! :-)

One more thing we could consider, in light of the discussions on this
list, would be to change the default erasure coding settings to
something like (K, H, N) of (1, 1, 1) or (1, 1, 5).

I'll create a Milestone for it on the Roadmap tonight.

If you want to help, review a patch! :-)

http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/PatchReviewProcess

Regards,

Zooko

http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/174# make argv $0 be
'tahoe', not 'twistd'
http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/585# make it work with bbfreeze
http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1150# util/find_exe.py is
not tested
http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1195# refactor
get_disk_stats() and get_available_space()
http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1219# Visual changes on
status web pages
http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1282# remove unmaintained
Mac and Windows apps
http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1284#
docs/quickstart.html readability improvement
http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1286# test failures with
message "exceptions.AttributeError: 'StreamServerEndpointService'
object has no attribute '_port'", and failure to write node.url file
with Twisted 10.2
http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1291# update
docs/performance.rst to describe the short-circuit for
already-uploaded immutable file