[tahoe-dev] TWN22

Sat Jan 21 21:29:55 UTC 2012

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Announcements and News
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TWN Scribe Strives to Become Developer Part 3
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My journey to become a developer took a break from coding and moved towards
understanding Git.  As mentioned `previously`_, Tahoe-LAFS moved to Git.  In
an effort to under pull requests and branches, I decided to test my readings
from `Pro Git`_ on some `documentation tickets`_, `#1407`_ and `#1660`_.
Brian |brian| will have to let you know how I did.  Once I understand Git, I
will work to tackle writing the unit test for `#1333`_.

.. _`previously`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/~marlowe/TWN20.html
.. _`Pro Git`: http://progit.org/book/
.. _`documentation tickets`:
   https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/query?status=!closed&keywords=~docs&order=priority
.. _`#1407`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1407
.. _`#1660`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1660
.. _`#1333`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1333

- From the tahoe-dev Mailing List
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Tahoe-LAFS on Fedora 14 and pfSense (FreeBSD)
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Great progress has been made on the mailing to package Tahoe-LAFS for `Fedora
14`_ and `pfSense (FreeBSD)`_.  The Fedora test machine is an One Laptop Per
Child (OLPC). The Fedora build experiences issues in that it attempts to
build the pycryptopp egg from the source tarball.  This is a result of
Tahoe-LAFS only having a 64 bit buildbot for Fedora.  Tahoe-LAFS would love
someone to `contribute a buildbot`_ running 32 bit Fedora.  On the suggestion
of the pfSense forum, Vladimir Arseniev built Tahoe-LAFS on FreeBSD 8.1.  If
Tahoe-LAFS could be packaged for FreeBSD, this would ease the process of
installing/packaging it for pfSense.

.. _`Fedora 14`:
   https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2012-January/006922.html
.. _`pfSense (FreeBSD)`:
   https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2012-January/006953.html
.. _`contribute a buildbot`:
   https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/HowtoContributeABuildbot

Looking for the Ultimate Distributed Filesystem
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Roland Mas `blogged`_ about his quest for "the ultimate distributed
filesystem.  In it, he compared Tahoe-LAFS, `Ceph`_ and `XTreemFS`_.  Zooko
|zooko| `provided some clarifications`_ in regards to Tahoe-LAFS to Roland.

.. _`blogged`:
   http://roland.entierement.nu/blog/2012/01/15/looking-for-the-ultimate-distributed-filesystem.html
.. _`Ceph`: http://ceph.newdream.net/
.. _`XTreemFS`: http://www.xtreemfs.org/
.. _`provided some clarifications`:
   https://plus.google.com/108313527900507320366/posts/ZrgdgLhV3NG

Patches Needing Review of the Week
==================================

There is one (1) ticket still needing review for 1.9.2:

* `#1648`_: assertion failure 'assert len(self._active_readers) >=
  self._required_shares' in mutable retrieve

There are five (5) tickets still needing review for 1.10:

* `#393`_: mutable: implement MDMF
* `#1265`_: New Visualizer is insufficiently labelled/documented (plus layout
  problem)
* `#1398`_: make docs/performance.rst more precise and accurate
* `#1566`_: if a stored share has a corrupt header, other shares held by that
  server for the file should still be accessible to clients
* `#1569`_: rerecord and review pluggable backends for landing on trunk

.. _`#1648`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1648
.. _`#393`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/393
.. _`#1265`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1265
.. _`#1398`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1398
.. _`#1566`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1566
.. _`#1569`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1569

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